{"id":949,"date":"2021-01-04T02:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T01:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sillabi.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2025-06-20T15:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:11:02","slug":"le-gerondif-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/en\/le-gerondif-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLe g\u00e9rondif\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Once you have reached the intermediate levels in the study of the French language, you will certainly have met the present participle. Now you are ready to discover a peculiar use of French: the \u201cg\u00e9rondif<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Read below a brief excerpt from the sheet dedicated to this topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le g\u00e9rondif correspond au participe pr\u00e9sent pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 de en<\/strong>. Son sujet doit toujours \u00eatre le m\u00eame que celui du verbe principal.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– En esp\u00e9rant<\/strong> que vous puissiez prendre en consid\u00e9ration ma candidature, je<\/strong> vous prie d’agr\u00e9er l’expression de mes sentiments les meilleurs (et non pas : Veuillez agr\u00e9er l’expression de mes sentiments…).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On l’emploie :<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1- pour indiquer une action simultan\u00e9e (l’emploi de tout<\/em> est facultatif)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Il lisait le journal (tout) en \u00e9coutant<\/strong> de la musique.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2- pour indiquer la mani\u00e8re<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Il s’est fait mal en courant<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Have you discovered something new? Did you discover something you already knew? Now you know how it is formed and some of its uses. If you want to discover other uses, look at more exemples and get a list of the most common errors, if you want to discover other uses, to have further examples and read which are the most common errors, open the grammar sheets of Sillabi for level B2<\/a> and look for the one dedicated to the \u201cg\u00e9rondif\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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