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No. 3,340 in French

écrire

To write.

In a sentence

  • Je vais écrire une lettre à mon ami.

    I am going to write a letter to my friend.

    In this sentence, 'écrire' is used in the infinitive form to indicate the future action of writing.

  • Il écrit très lentement.

    He writes very slowly.

    Here, 'écrit' is the conjugated form of 'écrire' in the present tense, describing the way he performs the writing action.

  • Nous avons écrit un poème ensemble.

    We wrote a poem together.

    The word 'écrit' is the past participle of 'écrire', used here in the past perfect tense to denote a completed action.

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