avant que

Meaning

Places an action before another, when the SUBJECTS DIFFER. Subjunctive.

Position and punctuation

within the sentence · no comma

Example

Le règlement doit être signé avant que la session ne commence.

The rules must be signed before the session starts.

In the DELF

the B2 essay · the C1 synthesis

The trap

Avant que takes the SUBJUNCTIVE, après que the INDICATIVE: the most disputed asymmetry in French, and the one the DELF follows.