Sentence examples of "perdu" in French
Il a perdu son temps à jouer aux courses hippiques.
He wasted his time on gambling at the horse races.
Pas étonnant qu'il ait échoué à l'examen après avoir ainsi perdu tant de temps.
No wonder he failed the exam, after wasting so much time like that.
S'il n'avait pas perdu de temps, il aurait terminé à l'heure qu'il est.
If he hadn't wasted time, he'd be finished by now.
Quand je demande aux gens ce qu'ils regrettent le plus concernant le lycée, ils répondent presque tous la même chose : qu'ils ont perdu tellement de temps.
When I ask people what they regret most about high school, they nearly all say the same thing: that they wasted so much time.
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