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please direct me to a lesson on how/when to use passé composé with imparfait in a sentence
I got this question:
How would you say "You went out even though I wasn't OK with it." ?
And I answered with this:
Tu es sortie bien que je n'étais pas d'accord.
Apparently the right answer was Tu es sortie bien que je ne suis pas d'accord, but I don't understand why je ne suis pas d'accord is in the present tense.
To me that sentence means "You went out even though I'm not OK with it.", as in "I'm not ok with in general", but the way the English sentence is written in the question means that the speaker wasn't ok about a particular going-out. Why would one use the present tense there even though the "not being ok with it" was done in the past?
These answers are bedevilled by poor English translations. Certain, in English, means either a particular one, or that one is sure of something. There is nothing vague about it, but your definition of 'certain' in the pre-noun position you say implies a vagueness, and yet the answer to the question is keith likes a certain (particular) man - unless you mean he likes all men who are sure about things? If you could avoid using the word 'certain' in your english translations that might be helpful.
Yes “J’irais” is the right answer but, “J’irais bien” is also correct.
I wrote
Nous nous rencontrons
instead of 'nous nous rejoignons / nous nous retrouvons
is it fine?
merci
Mon père donne des cours à l'université. __________ prof de sciences.
I thought that il est and elle est are used for unmodified identification of profession, but in the previous sentence prof is modified with de sciences, so does il est work here. Also if we use c'est we would have to add un before prof, but in the exercise it says use c'est or il est\elle est ...etc. So I am confused.
Bonjour — do you not use the liaison after “vais”? Is it optional or forbidden? Merci.
What do the preposition à and de Mean Un the Following sentences ?
Je parle à mon copain
There isn't a correction while I wrote the test for the section "peut-être au cafe à côté de la boulangerie" It just shows you at the end where it presents the whole text.
Can you explain please?
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