Word
Enfin, nous attendons pour peindre le mur.
Meaning
Finally, we wait to paint the wall.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Enfin, nous attendons pour peindre le mur.
nous
we / us (object pronoun)
pour
for
attendre
to wait / to wait for
enfin
finally, at last
Questions & Answers about Enfin, nous attendons pour peindre le mur.
Why use enfin here? Could I use finalement instead?
In this sentence, enfin means "finally" or "lastly" as the final step in a sequence (e.g., first we bought supplies, then we prepped the room, and enfin we wait). Finalement usually means "in the end" or "eventually" (like when you change your mind after a long time). When listing the steps of a process, enfin is the correct choice.
Why do we need pour before peindre?
In French, when the preposition pour is followed directly by an action, it translates to "in order to." So, nous attendons pour peindre literally means "we are waiting in order to paint."
I learned that attendre means "to wait for." Does attendons pour mean "wait for for"?
Why is peindre left in its unconjugated form?