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Ready to put your French grammar to the test? This crossword challenges your knowledge of the subjunctive mood at an advanced level, covering nuanced constructions such as subordinate clauses, expressions of doubt, emotion, and necessity. Push beyond the basics and sharpen your command of one of French’s most sophisticated — and most essential — grammatical features.
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Clues
Across
- 1. To be able
- 3. Word linking clauses together
- 5. Limitation placed on something
- 7. Dependent clause in a sentence
- 9. Mood expressing doubt or wish
- 10. Noun referred to by a clause
- 11. Always
Down
- 1. To take
- 2. State of being uncertain
- 4. Contrast between two elements
- 6. sometimes or occasionally
- 8. Would dare, conditional modal use
Answers
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Across
- 1. To be able → pouvoir
- 3. Word linking clauses together → conjonction
- 5. Limitation placed on something → restriction
- 7. Dependent clause in a sentence → subordinate
- 9. Mood expressing doubt or wish → subjonctif
- 10. Noun referred to by a clause → antecedent
- 11. Always → toujours
Down
- 1. To take → prendre
- 2. State of being uncertain → incertitude
- 4. Contrast between two elements → opposition
- 6. sometimes or occasionally → parfois
- 8. Would dare, conditional modal use → oserait
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