FREN 3570 Chapter 11: Time expressions (être en train de, etc.)
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Time expressions: another way to say things in the present. It literally means to be in the process of doing something. Je suis en train de manger maintenant, mais je viendrai dans un quart d"heure. I"m eating right now, but i"ll come in 15 minutes. Venir de + infinitive: a way to emphasize the immediacy of the situation that just happened. If you would have said j"ai couru then it would not be apparent that you just ran 10 kilometers. Participe pr sent: this is the equivalent to -ing in english. Swimming in the lake, she found money. While biking in the neighborhood, he found an animal: take the nous form of the present tense and add -ant: Sachant: it is used to show that a certain action takes place at the same time as another. Courant dans la rue, elle a vu un rat. Sometimes the preposition en precedes the participe pr sent.
