If you’re traveling in France this summer, never put ice cubes in your wine glass. Wine is sacred, and you mustn’t add anything to it. Who knows how the French might interpret that!
The two most commonly used past tenses are the passé composé and the imparfait. The imparfait expresses the continuity of an action, indicating that it was ongoing or repeated in the past. In contrast, the passé composé denotes a single, completed event that interrupts or concludes an ongoing action.
A word can have different meanings. This is the case with the word “urne” in French. It can be the ancient urn, the funeral urn, or the ballot box. For the next elections, put your ballot in the right place!
Ending a formal letter can sometimes be challenging. For a formal first contact, consider using this widely accepted (if somewhat interminable) closing formula:
