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<div style="font-size:300%"> Intransitive Verb constructions</div> | <div style="font-size:300%"> Intransitive Verb constructions</div> | ||
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==No object== | |||
Intransitive verbs have no object: | Intransitive verbs have no object: | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
!French | |||
!Translation | |||
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|Depuis Janvier les prix ont augmenté | |Depuis Janvier les prix ont augmenté | ||
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|He won't suffer | |He won't suffer | ||
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==Intransitive verbs accompanied by adverbs== | |||
They may be accompanied (usually optionally, but sometimes obligatorily) by adverbs. Examples shown in brackets indicate that the adverb is optional: | They may be accompanied (usually optionally, but sometimes obligatorily) by adverbs. Examples shown in brackets indicate that the adverb is optional: | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
!French | |||
!Translation | |||
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|Elle part (en vacances) | |Elle part (en vacances) | ||
Revision as of 22:09, 2 November 2021
Intransitive Verb constructions
No object
Intransitive verbs have no object:
| French | Translation |
|---|---|
| Depuis Janvier les prix ont augmenté | Since January prices have gone up |
| Il a acquiescé | He agreed |
| L'eau scintillait | The water sparkled |
| La neige tombe | Snow is falling |
| La fête continue | The party is going on |
| Elle avait disparu | She had disappeared |
| Vous descendez? | Are you going down? |
| Il ne souffrira pas | He won't suffer |
Intransitive verbs accompanied by adverbs
They may be accompanied (usually optionally, but sometimes obligatorily) by adverbs. Examples shown in brackets indicate that the adverb is optional:
| French | Translation |
|---|---|
| Elle part (en vacances) | She is going (on holiday) |
| Un léger brouillard montait (de la mer) | A mist rose (from the sea) |
| Il a respiré fortement | He breathed deeply |
| Christian serait tombé (du haut de la falaise) | Christian apparently fell (from the cliff) |
| Elle est descendue (péniblement) She went down (gingerly) | |
| Cet homme avait vécu plus de 90 ans | That man had lived into his nineties |
| Louis tremblait (de tous ses membres) | Louis was trembling (all over) |
| Les minutes passaient (lentement) | The minutes passed (slowly) |