{"id":829,"date":"2011-11-24T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T10:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=829"},"modified":"2011-11-29T18:08:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T17:08:24","slug":"le-subjonctif-au-secours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Le subjonctif (au secours !)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The subjunctive (again) (help!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yes, again I have to mention the subjunctive (having heard it around me for the last few days). Why do you cringe when you hear that word? We may not use it much in English (&#8216;if I were to do it&#8217;, &#8216;if the train were to be late&#8217; are the only examples I can think of at the moment, but some of the most intriguing and beautiful words are French subjunctives:<\/p>\n<p>Qu&#8217;il le <em>fasse<\/em> : may he do it\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0j&#8217;esp\u00e8re qu&#8217;elle <em>puisse<\/em> le faire : I hope she will be able to do it\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 pendant que ses amis <em>prennent<\/em> les eaux : while his\/her friends were swimming\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0le mensonge ne vaut pas que tu <em>r\u00e9fl\u00e9chisses<\/em> trop sur\u00a0lui (eg le mensonge :\u00a0the lie)\u00a0: it&#8217;s not worth thinking too hard about that lie\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 jusqu&#8217;\u00e0 ce qu&#8217;elle le <em>comprenne<\/em> : until she understands it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The subjunctive (again) (help!) Yes, again I have to mention the subjunctive (having heard it around me for the last few days). Why do you cringe when you hear that word? We may not use it much in English (&#8216;if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=829\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-dn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}