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nous aidions

help, assist, helped, were helping

→ aider
aid to help, to assist + ions we imperfect or subjunctive ending
verb · imperfect tense / present tense, 1st-person plural Rare #49,455
help, assist Used here in the subjunctive after que.
FR: Il faut que nous aidions nos voisins.
EN: We need to help our neighbors.
helped, were helping Imperfect indicative.
FR: Nous aidions souvent notre voisin.
EN: We often helped our neighbor.
Conjugation of aider
Subjunctive present
SingularPlural
First aide aidions
Second aides —
Third aide aident
Indicative imperfect
SingularPlural
First aidais aidions
Second aidais —
Third aidait aidaient

Nous aidions Tom.

We were helping Tom.

C'est normal que nous l'aidions à rattraper son retard.

It's only natural that we help him catch up.

— Space Seed (1967)

Ils veulent que nous les aidions.

They want us to help them.

Pourtant ils attendent que nous les aidions.

Yet they are waiting for us to help them.

— Les Sept Samouraïs (1954)