French/Grammar/Tenses/Recent past
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The Passé Récent is the tense which represents doing something.
e.g. I am coming back.
However, in French you say that you come from doing something rather than having just done it, so that sentence would be: Je viens de revenir
If we break it down into its parts it looks like this:
(pronoun) (conjugated form of venir) de (infinitive verb)
Here are some more examples:
We have just finished = Nous venons de finir
She has just arrived = Elle vient d'arriver
They have just ate = Ils viennent de manger
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Tenses & Moods
Auxiliary Verb • Non-finite Forms : Present Participle • Past Participle • Gérondif • Infinitive • Past Infinitive Simple Tenses : Present • Imperfect • Past Historic • Future |
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