Indicative Present (simple): Bruno Delavigne is both a visionary perfumer and a devoted grandson, carrying Xavier's legacy in everything he does at the Delavigne Corporation.
Indicative Present progressive / continuous: The noseless perfumer is being unusually secretive about his next fragrance launch, and Horatio Oléré suspects it involves a tribute to Montmartre.
Indicative Past (simple): Xavier was the kind of mentor whose passion for perfume making was so contagious that Bruno never stood a chance of choosing any other path.
Indicative Past progressive / continuous: Bruno was being chased by a particularly determined bull in Pamplona when he realized that his running shoes were, in fact, on the wrong feet.
Indicative Present perfect (simple): The Delavigne Corporation has been a cornerstone of the cosmetics industry ever since Bruno transformed his grandfather's tiny Montmartre shop into a global empire.
Indicative Present perfect progressive / continuous: The new Delavigne flagship store has been being constructed in San Francisco for eighteen months, and Bruno inspects the site every Friday morning.
Indicative Past perfect: By the time Bruno arrived in San Francisco to open his first overseas office, he had already been a perfumer for over a decade.
Indicative Past perfect progressive / continuous: The new fragrance had been being tested in Bruno's private lab for over a year before the Delavigne Corporation announced the launch in San Francisco.
Indicative Future: The grandson of Xavier will be the keynote speaker at next year's International Cosmetics Summit in San Francisco, according to the official program.
Indicative Future progressive / continuous: This time tomorrow, Bruno will be being interviewed on French television about his grandfather Xavier's legacy in the Montmartre perfume district.
Indicative Future perfect: By the time the Pamplona festival ends, the bull-runner will have been on the course four mornings in a row — a personal record.
Indicative Future perfect progressive / continuous: By next autumn, the Delavigne Corporation will have been being recognized as a sustainable cosmetics leader for five years running, much to Bruno's quiet satisfaction.
Conditional Simple: Without the tragic loss of his sense of smell, Bruno would be a different kind of perfumer — perhaps a lesser one, his staff quietly suspects.
Conditional Progressive: If the waves were better off San Francisco today, the CEO would be being filmed for his eco-documentary instead of trapped in another board meeting.
Conditional Perfect: Had Xavier survived that fateful explosion in Montmartre, he would have been immensely proud of the empire his grandson built in his name.
Conditional Perfect progressive: If Xavier had survived the fragrance explosion, Bruno would have been being mentored by the master perfumer for decades, and Delavigne Corporation might have looked very different today.
Imperative Imperative: « Be proud of what this team has built, » Bruno told his San Francisco staff during the Delavigne Corporation's anniversary celebration, « Xavier certainly would have been. »
Translation
Français
être
Deutsch
sein
Español
ser, estar
Italiano
essere
Português
ser ou estar
Nederlands
zijn
中文
是
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