{"id":449,"date":"2025-10-06T21:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/french-and-france.com\/?p=449"},"modified":"2025-10-06T21:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:05:08","slug":"french-micro-tip-how-to-use-depuis-and-pendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/french-and-france.com\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"French Micro-Tip \u2013 How to use \u201cDepuis\u201d and \u201cPendant\u201d ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-tertiary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ca8af4f9e9db2d27d08da2ef05b1648d\"><em>Depuis <\/em>ou<em> pendant <\/em>? Two simple words, but often confused. Discover the essential difference for expressing duration in French!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u27a1\ufe0f <em>J\u2019habite au Japon depuis 20 ans.<\/em> \u2192 l\u2019action <strong>continue<\/strong> (Note: present tense used).<br>\u27a1\ufe0f <em>J\u2019ai v\u00e9cu en France pendant 10 ans.<\/em> \u2192 l\u2019action est <strong>termin\u00e9e<\/strong> (Note: past tense used).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li><em>\u201cDepuis\u201d = since \/ for (ongoing)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>\u201cPendant\u201d = for (completed)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> \u30fc<em>Et vous, vous vivez dans votre pays actuel depuis combien de temps ?<\/em><br> <em>How long have you lived in your current country ?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Here is a nice interactive exercise to practice:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/fr.tsedryk.ca\/grammaire\/prepositions\/exercices\/Mettez_depuis_ou_pendant.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Pendant\/Depuis quiz\">https:\/\/fr.tsedryk.ca\/grammaire\/prepositions\/exercices\/Mettez_depuis_ou_pendant.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> #FLE #FrenchGrammar #LearnFrench #DELF #FrancaisFacile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depuis ou pendant ? Two simple words, but often confused. Discover the essential difference for expressing duration in French! \u27a1\ufe0f J\u2019habite au Japon depuis 20 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,30,6,7],"tags":[112,109,107,149],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-french","category-grammar","category-learning-french","category-vocabulary","tag-beginner","tag-french-grammar","tag-intermediate","tag-learnfrench"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/french-and-france.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/depuis_quand.png?fit=450%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/french-and-france.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/french-and-france.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/french-and-france.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french-and-france.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french-and-france.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/french-and-france.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/french-and-france.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french-and-france.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/french-and-france.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french-and-france.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french-and-france.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}