récemment

This is the 417th most frequent French word.

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récemment

Recently.


The word 'récemment' is used here as an adverb to indicate that the action of discovering occurred a short time ago from the present moment.

Récemment, j'ai découvert un nouveau café près de chez moi.

Recently, I discovered a new café near my house.


'Récemment' is again used as an adverb to specify that the promotion occurred not long ago in the past.

Elle a été promue récemment dans son entreprise.

She was recently promoted in her company.


In this sentence, the adverb 'récemment' provides a temporal context for when the action of watching the movie took place.

Nous avons vu ce film récemment, et nous l'avons trouvé excellent.

We watched this movie recently, and we found it excellent.