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,are you sure it is viviat and not vivait ??Because ... vivait là -bas = He lived (was living ) there.voilà !Denise
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Jacques Donvez has written: 'Paris' -- subject(s): Pictorial works 'La politique de Beaumarchais' -- subject(s): Political and social views 'De quoi vivait Voltaire?'
Francis Dumont has written: 'De quoi vivait Lamartine' 'Beaumont en Hainaut' -- subject(s): History 'Quand Beaumont appartenait au Grand Roi' -- subject(s): History
French has two past tenses--the imperfect (l'imparfait) and the compound past (le passé composé). The first is generally used for ongoing states of being and the second is used for events with no connection to the present. imparfait of vivre (to live): je vivais tu vivais il, elle, on vivait nous vivions vous viviez ils, elles vivaient passé composé of vivre: j'ai vécu tu as vécu il, elle, on a vécu nous avons vécu vous avez vécu ils, elles ont vécu