Breakdown of Je serais parti pour trouver une autre vocation.
je
I
être
to be
une
a / an (feminine)
pour
for
trouver
to find
partir
to leave / to depart
autre
other
la vocation
the vocation
Questions & Answers about Je serais parti pour trouver une autre vocation.
Why is the auxiliary serais used here instead of aurais?
Because the main verb is partir (to leave). Just like in the passé composé, verbs of motion and change of state (often remembered as the Dr. Mrs. Vandertramp verbs) use être as their helping verb in the past conditional. So, instead of using avoir, French requires the conditional form of être (je serais).
Since serais parti uses être, does parti need to agree with the speaker?
Why use pour before trouver?
In French, when you want to express "in order to do something," you use the preposition pour followed by an infinitive verb. Here, pour trouver translates to "in order to find" or simply "to find."
Why is autre placed before the noun vocation?
While most French adjectives go after the noun, autre (other or another) is one of the common exceptions that always comes before it. It acts as a basic describer, similar to the short adjectives in the BANGS rule (Beauty, Age, Number, Goodness, Size) which also precede the noun.
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