adjective/ok.si.ljɛʁ/
auxiliary
Related: auxiliairement, verbe auxiliaire
Borrowed from Latin auxiliāris, from auxilium (“help”).
/ok.si.ljɛʁ/
auxiliary
Related: auxiliairement, verbe auxiliaire
Borrowed from Latin auxiliāris, from auxilium (“help”).
a helping verb, an auxiliary verb (verb that, having lost its literal meaning, joins itself to a certain form of another verb, for example to a past participle, to show a grammatical feature such as tense, voice, aspect, etc. In French, avoir and être are tense auxiliaries)
“22 octobre 44 – Deux êtres qui se prêtent l’un à l’autre pour leur mieux-être. Et Kurt n’en tirait pas vanité. Je crois que c’est ce détail-là qui m’a libérée : je n’ai pas été eue… Si j’ose employer trois auxiliaires de suite!” — 22 October 44 – Two beings who lend themselves to each other for their well-being. And Kurt did not take pride in it. I believe that it is that detail that has liberated me: I have not been had…. If I dare to use three auxiliaries in a row!
Ellipsis of verbe auxiliaire.