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144 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

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143 months ago

   wrote:

At forty-two, Etienne had seen it all, assuming that he had ever been anywhere.

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144 months ago

HRP   wrote:

Whatever he might have had, Etienne has come to stay and the fact is that is he has never left

144 months ago

Josephine Cassar   wrote:

even if he had left for wherever

My comment:

Reference for tant que + subjunctive: http://en.pons.com/translate?q=tant&l=enfr&in=ac_fr&lf=fr- but this may be a suggestion, as it might fit more. Neither the tense or the construction are being used nowadays

144 months ago

Josephine Cassar   wrote:

even if he had left for wherever

My comment:

Reference for tant que + subjunctive: http://en.pons.com/translate?q=tant&l=enfr&in=ac_fr&lf=fr- but this may be a suggestion, as it might fit more. Neither the tense or the construction are being used nowadays

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

144 months ago

   wrote:

I chose "even" as the sense is that he had gone-went somewhere; left for wherever or wherever it was

144 months ago

   wrote:

I chose "even" as the sense is that he had gone-went somewhere; left for wherever or wherever it was

144 months ago

Josephine Cassar   wrote:

Inasmuch as he had ever left for wherever this was

My comment:

you don't see that tense used very often these days!

144 months ago

Claude Le Frapper   wrote:

Inasmuch as he had ever left for wherever this was

My comment:

you don't see that tense used very often these days!