Ok, I should have heard the "la" but I didn't - and I put "le mi-août" because août is masculine. Is it, then, the case that if you use the prefix "mi-" the whole thing ( "mi-qqch") invariably becomes feminine?

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Alan M.C1KwizIQ community member

Substitution for ‘partenaire’ and ‘vos proches’

Does ‘copine/copain’ suggest a less serious relationship than partenaire and does ‘êtres chers’ work for loved ones? Thanks

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D. A.B1KwizIQ community member

Imparfait to Express HabitsThis is a wonderful training exercise on using the imperfect past tense. It helped me begin to understand when using the conditional would be an improper choice. This said, American's automatically apply the conditional tense when we see the word "would." So...is the conditional tense applied more in an "if then" context? Such as, "Marie répondrait à Paul, mais elle avait peur."

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Helena F.B2KwizIQ community member

Use of "de" in phrase "les fantômes de peintures précédentes"

I used des rather than de in the phrase "the ghosts of previous paintings" since it is used in the context of a plural noun: "les fantômes des (rather than de) peintures précédentes". Since there is no adjective in front of the noun, why is the singular de used?

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Karl G.B2KwizIQ community member

Less formal The notes say that, “Il [pronoun] faut + infinitive = to need to [do something] OR must / to have to [do something],” sounds very formal in French. Is there a less formal way to say this sample sentence, “Il leur faut quitter cet endroit”?

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