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Usages of Paris
Maintenant, vous ne travaillez plus à Paris, n’est-ce pas ?
Now, you no longer work in Paris, right?
Marie visite Paris.
Marie visits Paris.
Paul rêve de Paris ; il y pense chaque jour.
Paul dreams of Paris; he thinks about it every day.
Quand nous serons à Paris, nous irons au théâtre parce que l’acteur y joue ce soir.
When we are in Paris, we will go to the theater because the actor is performing there tonight.
Notre destination finale est Lille, mais une passagère pense d’abord que le train va à Paris.
Our final destination is Lille, but a female passenger first thinks that the train is going to Paris.
Test yourself: What does Paris mean?
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