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how far? to where?

Jusqu'à dix heures, jusqu'à till ten o'clock, till the end.

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before ending.

Dire le bénédicité avant de to say grace before eating.

manger,

Avant de vous endormir,

before going to, before you go

to sleep.

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Il hésite avant de parler, or

avant que de parler, Donnez-moi manger avant de vous en aller,

get everything ready before he

comes.

before all the Greeks address

you through me, allow . .

he hesitates before speaking.

give me something to eat before you go.

Donnez-moi à manger avant give me something to eat before

que je parte,

OBS.

I go.

The subjunctive is used when the two clauses of the proposition are in different persons.

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A moins que vous ne me le unless you tell me.

disiez,

De peur que,

De crainte que,

De peur qu'il ne tombe,

De crainte que vous ne vous

trompiez,

Soit,

Soit que,

} for fear lest.

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for fear he should fall. for fear you should make a mistake.

whether.

Soit qu'il le fasse, soit qu'il whether he does it or not.

ne le fasse point,

Soit l'un, soit l'autre,

Pour que,

whether one or the other.

so that, for.

Pour que votre affaire réusAfin que,

[sisse,

Je vous parle afin que vous écoutiez et que vous profitiez de mes paroles,

Pour peu que,

for your business to succeed. so that, in order that. I speak to you for you to listen and profit by my words.

for ever so little that.

Pour peu que j'eusse eu d'ex- with ever so little experience.

périence,

Pour peu qu'on en soit piqué,

[it.

if but ever so slightly stung by OBS.-All prepositions followed by que do not take a subjunctive.

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Il faut faire en sorte que l'on you must manage to make

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Travaillez, vous serez payé work, and you will be propor

à mesure,

tionately paid.

A mesure que l'on avançait, l'autre reculait, Cette eau tant désirée paraissait fuir devant nous

à mesure que nous en approchions, Après que,

Après que vous serez parti,

as they advanced, the other recoiled.

that water we so thirsted after seemed to recede before us as fast as we approached it. after that.

after you are gone.

Various meanings of QUOI, QUEL, QUELQUE, QUICONQUE, QUELCONQUE, TEL, QUI, &c.

Quoi que vous fassiez ou que

vous disiez, Quoi qu'il en soit, Quoi que ce soit,

De quoi n'est-il pas capable? De quoi vous mêlez-vous?

[pez,

C'est en quoi vous vous tromChez,

Chez quelqu'un,

Chez moi, lui, elle,

Chez le général,
Chez ma mère,

Chez les Anglais,

Chez mon précepteur,

Dès,

Dès-lors,

Dès aujourd'hui,

Dès demain,

Venez dés demain,

whatever you do or say.

be it as it may, however it be. anything, whatever it be, what is he not capable of? what do you interfere for?

(Lit., about what do you concern yourself?) that is where you are wrong. at the house of, in the room

of, amongst, in.

at some one's house, room, in somebody's.

at my, his, her house or room; with, in me, him, her. at the general's.

at my mother's.

amongst the English. at my tutor's.

from, no later than, by.

from that time.

from to-day.

no later than to-morrow.

come to-morrow.

Dès demain je me mets à I shall set to work by to-mor

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Il faut que tout soit fini dès all must be done by to-morrow.

demain,

Sur,

Un sur trois,

by, out of.

one out of three.

Sur six coups j'ai tué cinq I shot five partridges in six

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