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"qui sont soient"
I encountered this sentence in a podcast:
"Il y a des objets qui sont soient bc plus cher en France, soient très dur à trouver là-bas." Why is the subjunctive placed in addition to the present infinitive?
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EducatorPermalink Reply by George Hunt on -
"Il y a des objets qui sont soient bc plus cher en France, soient très dur à trouver là-bas." Why is the subjunctive placed in addition to the present infinitive?
It is "soit....soit" ="either .... or".
I think it is the subjunctive form ("let it be") but not used as a verb at all.
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Permalink Reply by alan gould on
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The podcast is from "news in slow french." it does say "sont soient beaucoup plus cher." I was not familiar with "soit...soit" as "either...or" but now it does make sense.
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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on
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If they've put that in the transcript, it's just a typo. As George rightly points out, "soit ... soit ..." = "either .... or".
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