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Coffee Break French

CBF 2:27 | After having done something

Coffee Break French

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🗓️ 30 September 2009

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this week's lesson we’re building on the verbal constructions we’ve been learning over the past few weeks and introducing the phrase après avoir fait quelque chose. This lesson also explains what happens when an être verb is used with this construction. Please note that lesson 27 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 67 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.


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0:00.0

Tell you tomorrow did you have a new coffee break French? Welcome once again to Coffee

0:12.7

Break French. Now last time we were looking at before doing something and to have just

0:18.6

done something. In this lesson we're going to be looking at after doing something or in

0:24.4

French as you have to say after having done something at prez à voir faire quelques

0:29.4

shows. Again, hopefully this lesson will help you to increase your range of expression

0:34.1

and become more proficient in using French language. I hope that you enjoy this lesson

0:39.2

of Coffee Break French.

0:40.3

Okay, avant de commencer la leçon aujourd'hui, nous allons faire un peu de révision.

0:58.9

So before starting the lesson today, we have done some revisions.

1:07.7

Well, nous allons faire. Nous avons fait. Oh, sorry. So we will do some revision.

1:14.2

Yeah, we're going to do some revisions. Now just remember that revisions in the sense

1:18.3

la révision, doesn't really mean that we're going to be changing what we said originally,

1:24.1

revisions in some parts of the English-speaking world is used in that way, but it simply means

1:28.1

we're going to review what we learned last week. And we did so using that avant de faire

1:34.4

quelques shows. So avant de plus an infinitive means before doing something. And the other

1:40.2

phrase that we looked at last time was venir de plus an infinitive. For example, ana vienne

1:47.5

d'arriver. What would that mean ana? Ana has just arrived. Exactly. So venir de faire

1:54.5

quelques shows to have just done something. Ana vienne d'arriver. Literally, ana comes

2:01.3

from to arrive. Ana vienne d'arriver. Ana vienne d'arriver. Okay, and how would you

2:09.4

say? I have just arrived. Je viens d'arriver. Tout à fait. Très bien. Okay, today we're

2:16.1

going to move on to another expression that's quite similar in some ways, but it's actually

2:21.6

using a different verbal construction because we're not going to be using the infinitive

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