Louve @Louvelune@witches.town

@candle @Dalmaty It's like "I was drinking my coffee, and the phone rang" => "Je buvais mon café, et le téléphone a sonné"

We call this function of the tense "descriptive imperfect": you're painting the scenery, not telling a story of events. (in that particular verb, the whole point is to mix it up with the other past tenses for the actions)

@Hiraelle @candle past participle! :D

@candle @Dalmaty "i drank" => "j'ai bu"

("je buvais" is a different past form, you'd use it to make the action the background scene of something else happening for example. Not here.)

@translator @Santartine https://witches.town/media/9ewkrrhSkBCbtXkZVKQ

@candle @Hiraelle NB: I chose "give" as an example to SUBTLY point out that transitivity isn't translated linearly. Some verbs will be one in English, the other in French... ^^°

You CAN'T say "I gave him the letter" in French, it's necessarily "to give [smth] TO [smone]"

@candle @Hiraelle I'm pulling that out of my ass, but I think that it's "le/la" when it's a transitive verb, "lui" when it's intransitive.

So, "I see him" => "je le vois"
"I give to him" => "je lui donne"

That's the only occasion where le/la can be pronoun instead of a determinant, though. And since it will always be right before the verb of the sentence, you can't mistake it for the usual determinant - which is probably why it's used to mark the difference transitive/intransitive, by the way. :<

@candle sorry...
https://witches.town/media/VV3RBb_PNpyjTs9RNx0

@candle @Hiraelle it's "le"

""je le ai vu"" (if it was plural, we would say "je les ai vus")

@DarckCrystale @AliceinCrystalTokyo Vote blanc = "aucun de ces candidats ne me plaît"

Abstention = "Vos élections, c'est du foutage de gueule. Vous savez où vous pouvez vous les mettre?" :<

#TeamAbsentionnistes \m/

@AliceinCrystalTokyo Haha, bah si on pouvait *s'abstenir des résultats* et des conséquences, ce serait trop facile! xD

#ChatonDeSoutienMoral https://witches.town/media/NFJDEdaSoezRPJfgjAs

@wxcafe Ben... Ils comptent un peu que ce sera justement pas *contre eux*, que ça s'appliquera, non? :/

@margaery Since you mentioned learning French, I'll point this out:

"les aliments" is grammatically correct, but it's not much used like this, it's more "foodstuff" than "food".

For everyday use, you should go for the collective noun "la nourriture", or its familiar version "LA BOUFFE". :p

NB: the capital letters aren't mandatory, but i think they express the sentiment better.... :D

@candle farmer*

@candle In French, "a black eye" isn't "un œil noir", it's "un œil AU BEURRE noir".

(Because "beurre noir" was a famer slang word for compost when it's so rotten it's a blackish slur...)