Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 1 of 5 25 April 2014 at 9:57pm | IP Logged |
What verb is vécu formed from in the following sentence? (It is from Assimil NFWE lesson 108, by the way):
Il y a plein de gens célèbres qui y ont vécu.
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evilado Diglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4007 days ago 64 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Mandarin
| Message 2 of 5 25 April 2014 at 10:13pm | IP Logged |
vivre, I remember guessing at this with "euuh J'y ai vivu?" with a tutor and getting a
quick correction.
http://www.wordreference.com/conj/FrVerbs.aspx?v=vivre
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 3 of 5 26 April 2014 at 1:17am | IP Logged |
Ah, thank you. It seems obvious now, it certainly couldn't have been habiter.
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michaelyus Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4566 days ago 53 posts - 87 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: Italian, French, Cantonese, Korean, Catalan, Vietnamese, Lingala, Spanish Studies: Hokkien
| Message 4 of 5 28 April 2014 at 10:59am | IP Logged |
I literally didn't believe it the first time I heard it actually! Kept asking the French
native whether I had heard wrong. Had to check the etymology on Wiktionary.
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tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4666 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian
| Message 5 of 5 28 April 2014 at 10:28pm | IP Logged |
Just to add a little something, "vécu" is also used as a (masculine) noun, meaning "life experience", "life events", or "(personal) background."
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