No. 417 in French
récemment
Recently.
In a sentence
Récemment, j'ai découvert un nouveau café près de chez moi.
Recently, I discovered a new café near my house.
The word 'récemment' is used here as an adverb to indicate that the action of discovering occurred a short time ago from the present moment.
Elle a été promue récemment dans son entreprise.
She was recently promoted in her company.
'Récemment' is again used as an adverb to specify that the promotion occurred not long ago in the past.
Nous avons vu ce film récemment, et nous l'avons trouvé excellent.
We watched this movie recently, and we found it excellent.
In this sentence, the adverb 'récemment' provides a temporal context for when the action of watching the movie took place.
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