Translating traveller’s phrases, Browsing through phrases – Franklin Professeur d'anglais French Professor BFQ-1440 User Manual

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Advanced Verb Conjugations

There are two ways in which you can
translate several helpful phrases in cat-
egories ranging from

Emergencies to

Business Communication to Time &
Dates. Note that the English phrase al-
ways appears before the French phrase.

Browsing Through Phrases

1. Press

menu

.

2. Use the arrow keys to highlight

and then press

entrer

to

view the English phrases.
Press

to view the French

phrases.

You can also hold

f n

and press

?*

to go straight to the Phrases menu in
the same language as the lookup
language.

3. Press or to highlight the

category you want and press

entrer

.

Press or to highlight a subcat-
egory, if needed, and press

entrer

.

Translating Traveller’s

Phrases

Viewing English Inflections

If you are unfamiliar with inflections, it
may be helpful to look at some
inflected forms of English verbs.
Switch the entry language back to
English, type

write, and press

conj

to

see the different forms of the English
verb “to write”.

This will give you a good idea of each
inflection form.

Verb Conjugations

The Professeur d'anglais conjugates
French verbs into the following forms:
present indicative, indicative imper-
fect, indicative simple past, simple
future indicative, present conditional,
present subjunctive, imperfect
subjunctive, indicative passé
composé, pluperfect indicative,
indicative past anterior, indicative
future anterior, conditional perfect,
perfect subjunctive, pluperfect
subjunctive, imperative, present
participle, and past participle.

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