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Intransitive Verb constructions
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Intransitive verbs have no object:
French | Translation |
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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 |
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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) |