Word
Au bout d'un mois, elle a compris.
Meaning
After a month, she understood.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Au bout d'un mois, elle a compris.
elle
she
comprendre
to understand
le mois
the month
au bout de
after, at the end of
Questions & Answers about Au bout d'un mois, elle a compris.
Why does this sentence use au bout de instead of the lesson's focus words, dans or en?
Why use au bout d'un mois instead of après un mois?
Why is the verb in the passé composé (elle a compris) rather than the imparfait (elle comprenait)?
The phrase au bout d'un mois sets up a specific turning point in time. Using the passé composé shows that her realization was a sudden, completed event (it finally clicked). The imparfait would describe an ongoing background state of understanding, which clashes with the idea of a realization happening at the very end of a waiting period.