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<div class="h5p-element h5p-element-button-big h5p-transparent"> <div class="h5p-element-outer h5p-advancedtext-outer-element"> <div class="h5p-element-inner h5p-advanced-text"> <p>In French, <strong>recent past actions</strong> are expressed with the phrase<strong><em> </em>venir de + [infinitif]</strong>, when in English you would use the Present Perfect with just = I have just done, he has just eaten, …</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="h5p-element h5p-element-button-big h5p-transparent"> <div class="h5p-element-outer h5p-advancedtext-outer-element"> <div class="h5p-element-inner h5p-advanced-text"> <p style="padding-left: 40px"><span style="color:#000080;">☞</span> <span style="color:#000080;">Je <strong>viens de</strong> finir mon livre. </span> <span style="color:#808080;"><em> I’ve just finished my book.</em></span></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="h5p-element h5p-element-button-big h5p-transparent"> <div class="h5p-element-outer h5p-advancedtext-outer-element"> <div class="h5p-element-inner h5p-advanced-text"> <p style="padding-left: 40px"><span style="color:#000080;">☞ Laurent <strong>vient </strong><strong>d’</strong>arriver à l’instant. </span><em> <span style="color:#808080;">Laurent has just arrived this instant.</span></em></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="h5p-element h5p-element-button-big h5p-transparent"> <div class="h5p-element-outer h5p-audio-outer-element"> </div> </div> <div class="h5p-element h5p-element-button-big h5p-transparent"> <div class="h5p-element-outer h5p-audio-outer-element"> <div class="h5p-element-inner h5p-audio-wrapper"> <div class="h5p-audio-inner">You can also use<strong> </strong>venir <strong>juste </strong>de in French to emphasise how recent the action is.</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="h5p-element h5p-element-button-big h5p-transparent"> <div class="h5p-element-outer h5p-advancedtext-outer-element"> <div class="h5p-element-inner h5p-advanced-text"> <p style="padding-left: 40px">▫︎ Je <span style="color:#000080;">viens <strong>juste</strong> </span>de finir mon livre. <em> <span style="color:#808080;">I’ve just finished my book.</span></em></p> <p>Practice</p> <iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="411" src="https://pressbooks.pub/introductiontofrench1/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=h5p_embed&id=29" title="PASSE RECENT - PB" width="686"></iframe><script src="https://pressbooks.pub/app/plugins/h5p/h5p-php-library/js/h5p-resizer.js" charset="UTF-8"></script></div> </div> </div>
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