Indicative Present (simple): Every fragrance Bruno Delavigne creates means something deeply personal — a tribute to his grandfather Xavier and the Montmartre workshop that shaped him.
Indicative Present progressive / continuous: Horatio Oléré is not sure what Bruno is meaning to say at the shareholders' meeting, but the word 'explosion' keeps coming up.
Indicative Past (simple): The Montmartre kid meant every word when he vowed, over his grandfather's ruined workshop, to build something extraordinary.
Indicative Past progressive / continuous: Bruno was meaning to warn his San Francisco staff about the faulty burner in the lab, but he got distracted by a call from Pamplona.
Indicative Present perfect (simple): The noseless perfumer has always meant for the Delavigne Corporation to stand for more than just profits — environmental causes are at its very heart.
Indicative Present perfect progressive / continuous: Bruno has been meaning to give Horatio Oléré a proper thank-you speech for years, and his best friend is starting to take it personally.
Indicative Past perfect: By the time the press conference ended, it was clear that Bruno had meant every word of his passionate defense of fragrance fire prevention.
Indicative Past perfect progressive / continuous: The Delavigne Corporation's communications team had been meaning to issue a clarification for weeks before Bruno accidentally told a journalist the cologne was 'technically flammable.'
Indicative Future: Winning the environmental award will mean the world to Bruno, who has dedicated years to promoting awareness of fragrance fire prevention.
Indicative Future progressive / continuous: By the time he paddles out at dawn, Bruno will be meaning to clear his head of all boardroom politics before catching his first wave.
Indicative Future perfect: By the anniversary of Xavier's death, the grandson of Xavier will have meant every promise he made in that scorched Montmartre workshop.
Indicative Future perfect progressive / continuous: By the time Bruno finally delivers his long-postponed speech in San Francisco, he will have been meaning to give it for nearly three years.
Conditional Simple: A life without perfume would mean nothing to the CEO, who built everything he has on the ruins of his grandfather's dream.
Conditional Progressive: If he weren't sprinting through Pamplona's cobblestoned streets right now, Bruno would be meaning to draft that fragrance safety memo back at the office.
Conditional Perfect: Horatio once said that losing his sense of smell would have meant the end for most people — but not for Bruno Delavigne.
Conditional Perfect progressive: Without the accident that cost him his nose, Bruno would have been meaning to pursue a very different career, far from the Delavigne Corporation.
Imperative Imperative: « Mean what you say about safety protocols, » Bruno tells the new Delavigne Corporation lab technician, glancing meaningfully at the row of highly combustible fragrance samples.
Translation
Français
signifier
Deutsch
bedeuten
Español
significar
Italiano
significare
Português
significar
Nederlands
betekenen
中文
意味着
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