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In the sentences Ils attendent son arrivée  and Ils s'attendent à son arrivée ... why use the feminine arrivée, when Ils (not elles) is the subject and HE is the one arriving.  Merci

A lot to take in!

In English "the day after", "the next day" and the "the following day" mean the same. Likewise "the day before" = "the previous day".  In French, do le lendemain, le jour d’après and le jour suivant /la veille, le jour d’avant and le jour précédent differ from each other in meaning or mainly in register?

Secondly, from the point of view of today, are l’après-demain and l’avant-hier used in conversation?

ceci ou cela    Doesn't celui-ci ou celui-la  mean the same thing, this or that ?

Greetings of the day!

what is the difference between " l'art plastique" and "le dessin"?

to - ma'am Cecile

thanks and regards

For the question ""Je suis très vieux." The speaker is:" I have answered this as "male" but the bot is grading my answer as BOTH incorrect and unanswered.  Could you advise which it is?

'Autres' refers to 'détails', so is an adjective ('détails' being a noun)?

So shouldn't it be 'des autres'?

L'adjectif "long" précède normalement le nom et si j'ai "a big white house", c'est une grande maison blanche, n'est-ce pas?  Pourquoi dans le cas des cheveux sont-ils "les cheveux longs et raides" et pas "les longs cheveux raides"?  Merci.  

I'm confused about the difference between "les jours derniers" vs. "les derniers jours".

In the lesson, "les jours derniers" is translated as "these last days" while "les derniers jours" is translated as "these past few days." I'm having a hard time seeing the distinction. 

If I were to conjugate Ecrire in plus que parfait how would it be like

Please explain why the plural is used at the end of this sentence dont les trois bâtiments entourant une charmante place centrale participent d'une atmosphère de petit hameau des plus pittoresques. 

Also cabane is a female noun, shouldn’t it be surplombantes in the phrase below 

l'une des deux cabanes surplombant le domaine

Thank you very much