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Past historic(nous aimames)
Perfect(nous ayons aime)
Pluperfect(nous eussions aime)

i wanna know wat's the difference in their meanings.
thank u in advance :)

2007-02-23 18:59:21 · 6 answers · asked by lester 1 in Society & Culture Languages

6 answers

Past historic – nous aimâmes. This is used only in literature for narrative. You would never use it in conversation, or in writing letters.

Perfect – nous avons aimé. This means “we have loved” and also “we loved” for conversational purposes.

Pluperfect – nous avions aimé. “We had loved.” “We had loved the old cinema and were sad to see it demolished.” It projects the perfect tense one stage further in the past.

“Nous eussions aimé” is the pluperfect subjunctive and it is so unlikely that you would ever write that in any essay or other piece of literature that you need not trouble yourself about its meaning. Here's a link explaining the subjunctive with a strong warning against using anything other than the present or past subjunctive in practice lest you look like a pedant or a fool or worse! http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1276154

2007-02-24 01:57:44 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0 0

I am French

Past historic. In French do not use this form escpecially in oral language. It is obsolete and the person with whom you speak will smile. Itwas employed when you wanted to speak of something which took place in the past, but oyu have forgotten when.

perfect you made a mistake it is nous avons aimé. Most used form. Example in a test of wine, you read frequently nous avons aimé ce vin (most used )

Nous eussions aimé unlike the two other forms this is subjonctive

i give you an example when you test a wine and you found it good

but you taste it in bad conditions, you can say Si le vin rouge n'avait pas été servi froid , nous eussions aimé If the red wine had not been served to cold , we shoud like it

2007-02-23 20:24:30 · answer #2 · answered by maussy 7 · 2 0

Past historic: Nous aimames - we loved - completed action. This verb form is not used in everyday speech but in books and other written work.

Perfect: Nous avons aimé - we loved or we have loved - used in spoken and written French.

Pluperfect: Nous eussions aimé - we had loved. Again, not used in spoken French, where 'nous avions aimé' is used and means the same thing.

2007-02-23 20:13:59 · answer #3 · answered by JJ 7 · 1 0

I've been studying french for 15 years and I can tell u that it's totally differant from english.english is simpler in grammar when u say past perfect u can know it's differance in meaning than when u say past.but in french there is a huge part known as'conjugaison'reponsible for study of verbs and it's really huge and complicated.so u asked for the differance btw those 3 verbs and I can tell u that there is almost no differance in the meaning it's not like in english.so don't bother urself with this because even french people will not help u in this.

2007-02-23 19:43:15 · answer #4 · answered by Pinka 3 · 0 0

Mais, oui. yet of direction. this is French for "I confirmed the promise of skills whilst i became into youthful then fell in love with my supervisor/destiny husband that's totally popular as he's a trifling seventy 5 years older than I, and that i spent something of my days churning out bland song for the Vegas and 'ordinary listening' crowds mutually as having a hair growing to be opposition with my hippie son."

2016-10-01 21:51:26 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

it's "grammar", learn your native language before attempting another one

2007-02-23 19:03:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

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