Word
Nous organisons la réunion dans le but de convaincre les investisseurs.
Meaning
We organize the meeting with the aim of convincing the investors.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Nous organisons la réunion dans le but de convaincre les investisseurs.
nous
we / us (object pronoun)
organiser
to organize
la réunion
the meeting
l'investisseur
the investor (m)
Questions & Answers about Nous organisons la réunion dans le but de convaincre les investisseurs.
Why use dans le but de instead of just pour?
Could we use en vue de instead of dans le but de in this sentence?
Yes, you could say en vue de convaincre les investisseurs. Both are formal expressions of purpose followed by an infinitive. However, dans le but de puts a slightly stronger emphasis on the specific goal or intention (le but), whereas en vue de translates closer to "with a view to" or "in preparation for".
Why is convaincre in the infinitive? Doesn't expressing a goal often require the subjunctive?
You only need a subjunctive construction (like using dans le but que or pour que) when there is a change of subject between the two parts of the sentence. Because the people organizing the meeting (nous) are the exact same people who will do the convincing, you must use the preposition de followed by the infinitive convaincre.
Why use la réunion for "meeting" instead of le rendez-vous?