FREN 3051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Regular And Irregular Verbs, Infinitive, Pome
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The irregular verb devoir is a (cid:1688)shoe verb(cid:1689) in the present tense: Devoir shows that the subject (cid:1688)must,(cid:1689) (cid:1688)has to,(cid:1689) or (cid:1688)is supposed to(cid:1689) do something. Il doit travailler. (he must work or he has to work or he is supposed to work. ) Il devait travailler mais il tait malade. (he had to work but he was sick or he was supposed to work but he was sick. ) Probability or supposition: elle doit tre contente. (she must be happy or she is probably happy. , elle a d pleurer. (she must have cried. ) Devoir means (cid:1688)to owe(cid:1689) when it is followed by a noun: Il me doit cent dollars. (he owes me . ) The verb faire can be used in a causative construction, which means that the subject causes an action to be done by someone or something else. Faire is followed by the infinitive expressing the action to be completed.
