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Apparaître follows the same pattern as connaître for the passé composé, (aître -> u), so not an exception. See - https://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-rules-model-french/model-conna%C3%AEtre.html
EXCEPTIONS :
- apparaître (to appear, come to be) and derivativesdrawing a blank tonight. if attendre ans s'attendre both mean to expect how can we tell when each is required
position of prochain relative to nouns
saying "literally - and we completely remade my wardrobe" isn't quite right when you've missed out "together"? I feel like these hints aren't helpful and in fact hinder my progress in the text as they aren't "literal" at all. Plus in that sentence, to say "we bought me a new wardrobe" isn't quite what a native English person would say, they'd simply say "and we bought a new wardrobe (for me).
Hope this can be of use and makes sense from my point of view.
1) Les enfants reviennent des États-Unis et de France ('des 'because US is plural and 'de' as France is singular I assume)
2) Les enfants reviennent de vacances. (Here is 'de' used because it follows reveinnent or because vacances is singular in French?)
3) Elle se souvient des vacances en Espagne. (What is the justification for the use of 'des' in sentence 3? Why is it not 'de' as in 2) above?)
is there another on the subject you would recommend?
I don't see why the correct answer would be in the imperfect, since the coming of the tradition is something that has happened and is over with. The imperfect doesn't work. The correct answer should use the passe compose: Cette tradition, qui est venue....>>
Why is "almost identical" translated simply as "identique", rather than "presque indentique"?
The phrase “In case I’m late, I’ll take my keys.” Is shown to be correctly translated as:
“Au cas où je serais en retard, je prendrai mes clés.”
My answer, “Au cas où je suis en retard . . . “ was marked incorrect. Why?
To me, “I’m late” translates to “I am late.”
Bonjour — do you not use the liaison after “vais”? Is it optional or forbidden? Merci.
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