imparfait subjonctif

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Deep Dive: The French Imperfect Subjunctive In formal or literary French (la langue soutenue), the imperfect subjunctive is used to maintain a strict...

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The king ordered that silence should reign in the court.

Le roi ordonna que le silence régnât en la cour.

No one dared to say a single word.

Nul n’osa mot dire.

Did you desire that I leave immediately?

Désiriez-vous que je partisse sur-le-champ ?

I would have preferred that you wait until dawn.

J’eusse préféré que vous attendissiez l’aurore.

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