Lesson summary
The key points to remember, for revision.
- 1Passive = être (tense of the active verb) + agreed participle + par. Le pont a été inauguré par le maire.
- 2Gerund: en + -ant, same subject (manner, means, simultaneity).
- 3Present participle: formal equivalent of qui + verb (les candidats ayant…) or of a cause.
- 4Nominalisation: augmenter → l’augmentation, refuser → le refus, ouvrir → l’ouverture.
Key vocabulary
| inaugurer | to open officially |
| licencier | to lay off |
| privilégier | to favour |
| le conseil municipal | city council |