How to use DEPUIS in French
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0:01 let's uncover today the French brain behind Dupree how it turns up in sentences and a way to remember this because let's face it when we're English
0:10 we try and translate and this word does not translate perfectly we have to get into our French brain please think about sharing this
0:19 if you know anybody else who would be interested in learning this I'm Christine cam found of Simply French online and I use my own real French
0:28 method making your learning rewarding effective and adventurous learning let's dive in with Dupree now already you can see on screen we have two
0:39 meanings for the pre let's look carefully two examples that I'm going to show you to start with is Japan Le Frances
0:50 so I've been learning French for a year or Japan France so that's I've been learning French since 2020. so already for French people
1:02 trying to work out which is which they have to think is it for or is it since so if you think it's just us struggling it's not it's something that you have to
1:12 work out the idea of it all so let's unpick that so in English we'd say I have been learning French for a year or since
1:23 2022. we've got four and since but the French want to use just Dupree let's look closely the English Way shows that you started
1:33 in the past that's the English brain thinking so you say I have been in other words you're telling me that you started a while ago and the ing
1:43 is highlighting the fact that you're still at it because you haven't finished ing is about keeping it going so I learned French for a year since
1:55 2022 is a bit weird in English and when you hear French people speaking when they don't understand this this is what they will say
2:03 so the French way includes the concept that you're still studying by using the present tense I learn because the present tense is
2:13 about now and are we studying then learning now yes so there's the logic I'm doing it now and they use that in the word Dupri de
2:24 pre expresses that for us so they use the present tense therefore they have oops therefore they have Japan in the present
2:35 it doesn't actually translate as I have been learning that's our English brain so Dupri is translated as since or four
2:47 foreign I've been learning French since last year
2:55 so since is used when we say a specific moment in time but in French we'll still use de pre and the other one four is used when we
3:05 say the length of time we've been studying look at that we have been studying but actually we study or we learn
3:12 Japanese I learned French starting a while ago still doing it all
3:22 in that word debris and then at the time the length of time it sounds a bit weird at first but actually it's the concept of Dupree it's
3:33 something you started a while ago and you're still doing that's it so in French Dupree is used for both meaning sensor for and the only
3:43 difference is how we express it so let's have a go at having a quick test to see if you've absorbed this so let's test you
3:52 I have been a vegetarian since 2021 or I have not been eating meat for several years how would you say that pause the video now work it out and come
4:03 back now I have been a vegetarian since 2021 you need to express that you started in the
4:12 past and is still doing it with the word Dupree and because you're still doing it you want just three this is masculine feminine
4:21 if you're a man if you're a lady so what about I've not been eating meat for several years
4:31 okay so pause now if you want to work it out and come for the answer
4:38 so you're going to say I have not been eating it so present tense alert okay in English it's like we're telling as we started in the
4:48 past we're going to need Dupri to express that in the present tense I do not eat june
5:01 and that's it there's just one basic test feel free to get in touch with me if you have any more ideas or put them in the conversation thread attack me and
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