Indicative Present (simple): Bruno Delavigne affords his San Francisco staff the best working conditions in the cosmetics industry, a point of pride he never tires of mentioning.
Indicative Present progressive / continuous: The Delavigne Corporation is affording its environmental partners more funding than ever this quarter, thanks to record-breaking fragrance sales.
Indicative Past (simple): After years of struggle in Montmartre, Bruno finally afforded himself the luxury of a proper perfumer's laboratory.
Indicative Past progressive / continuous: The grandson of Xavier was barely affording rent in Paris when Horatio Oléré convinced him to bet everything on expanding the family shop.
Indicative Present perfect (simple): The Delavigne Corporation has afforded Bruno the freedom to chase bulls in Pamplona every year without a single board member objecting.
Indicative Present perfect progressive / continuous: Bruno has been affording himself longer surfing sessions each week, arguing that the Pacific Ocean inspires his best fragrance ideas.
Indicative Past perfect: By the time he launched the Delavigne Corporation, the perfumer had afforded himself only one real holiday in seven years — a chaotic weekend in Pamplona.
Indicative Past perfect progressive / continuous: Horatio Oléré had been affording Bruno every possible support for years before the business finally turned its first major profit.
Indicative Future: With next year's projected revenues, the noseless perfumer will afford a state-of-the-art fragrance fire prevention lab at Delavigne Corporation headquarters.
Indicative Future progressive / continuous: By the time the Pamplona trip begins, Bruno will be affording himself the rare pleasure of two full weeks away from the office.
Indicative Future perfect: By the time he retires, the CEO will have afforded hundreds of environmental charities the kind of support his grandfather Xavier could only have dreamed of.
Indicative Future perfect progressive / continuous: By next spring, the Delavigne Corporation will have been affording scholarships to young Montmartre perfumers for a full decade.
Conditional Simple: Bruno would afford himself more time on the surfboard if the Delavigne Corporation's inbox weren't permanently overflowing.
Conditional Progressive: Without the quarterly earnings pressure, the bull-runner would be affording his San Francisco team far more creative autonomy right now.
Conditional Perfect: Bruno would have afforded his grandfather Xavier a grander shop in Montmartre if the explosion had not cut their time together so tragically short.
Conditional Perfect progressive: Without Horatio's steady financial counsel, the perfumer would have been affording himself reckless luxuries long before the company could sustain them.
Imperative Imperative: « Afford yourself a moment of rest, Horatio — the Delavigne Corporation will still be standing after lunch, » Bruno says, handing his best friend a surfboard.
Translation
Français
se permettre
Deutsch
sich leisten können
Español
permitirse, darse el lujo de
Italiano
permettersi
Português
permitir-se
Nederlands
zichzelf toestaan
中文
负担得起
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