The master's thesis focuses on the issue of expressing past verb tenses in the original French novel and the translation into Slovene. There are many differences in this area between French, which is one of the Romance languages, and Slovene as a Slavic language. French offers the author a rich set of simple and composed past tenses, while the Slovene language, with only two choices of past verb tenses, requires a focus on verbal aspect. The author ascertains that based on whether the French verb tense is simple or composed, we can to a certain degree predict whether the perfective or imperfective verb form will be used in Slovene. In addition, French uses several impersonal verb forms to express past actions, so the author also establishes that more personal verb forms are detected in the Slovenian translation. Both hypotheses were examined by the author using a bilingual parallel corpus comprising about a third of the novel.
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