Please learn this and get it into your heads. Remember the ability to understand and identify this at LC is one of the skills expected of you.
A present participle.
Le participe présent.
J’écoute – I am listening / I listen / I do be listening.
Nous écoutons – remove the nous and the ons to get a stem.
Ecout – then I add ant
And I get
Ecoutant - listening
Finir - -
Nous finissons – REMOVE THE NOUS AND THE ONS
Finiss – then I add ant
Finissant – finishing
Vendre – is to sell – we want SELLING
Go to the nous – Nous vendons – remove the nous and the ons – vend
THEN ADD – ANT
VENDANT – selling –
Punir- Nous punissons remove the nous and the ons – PUNISS
Punissant – Punishing
THERE ARE THREE IRREGULARS THAT YOU HAVE TO LEARN !!!!
EN - - - - - - WHILE - - - - - - BY - - - - - - - DURING
Adris m’approche en mangeant un sandwich.
Adris va rapidement en courrant dans le couloir.
En descendant les escaliers le pauvre petit Ethan tombe.
Le participe présent.
J’écoute – I am listening / I listen / I do be listening.
Nous écoutons – remove the nous and the ons to get a stem.
Ecout – then I add ant
And I get
Ecoutant - listening
Finir - -
Nous finissons – REMOVE THE NOUS AND THE ONS
Finiss – then I add ant
Finissant – finishing
Vendre – is to sell – we want SELLING
Go to the nous – Nous vendons – remove the nous and the ons – vend
THEN ADD – ANT
VENDANT – selling –
Punir- Nous punissons remove the nous and the ons – PUNISS
Punissant – Punishing
THERE ARE THREE IRREGULARS THAT YOU HAVE TO LEARN !!!!
- Avoir – TO HAVE - - - - - Ayant - HAVING
- Etre – TO BE - - - - - - étant - BEING
- Savoir - TO KNOW – Sachant – KNOWING
EN - - - - - - WHILE - - - - - - BY - - - - - - - DURING
Adris m’approche en mangeant un sandwich.
Adris va rapidement en courrant dans le couloir.
En descendant les escaliers le pauvre petit Ethan tombe.