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AnnC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

pourquoi ils traduisons une phrase comme “I never quit once” = "Je n’ai pas arrêté une minute"Cela me semble comme un piege dites "i never stopped for a minute"

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Je suis UN oncle?

Bonjour! I have definitely heard an excited new dad exclaim, “Je suis Papa!”

Is there a difference between what is correct and what is actually said?

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JanB1Kwiziq community member

Is there another correct way to translate this sentence?

Personne n'a ses clés ?
Does nobody have their keys ?

"Does nobody have their keys?" strikes me as something that would rarely if ever be said in (American) English. Is there another correct way to translate this? Because this one will be really hard for me to remember because it seems so very strange.

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JanB1Kwiziq community member

Is there another correct way to translate this sentence?

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AnnC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

In the writing challenge, the translation from english was, I would never have imagined that which I followed with the subjunctive but the correct answas the conditional. Why? If croire in the negative uses the subjonctive, why not would not have imagined?

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AnnC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Why does one say "je vais parler un peu français" or Je parle un peu le français when un peu is normally followed by de. Even if languages are usuallyfollowed by an article, doesn't the un peu override that?

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PaulC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

cher = dear (expensive) or dear (beloved)Interestingly. dear can mean expensive or beloved in English too!

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PaulC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Mais ou orCan you please explain when to use the French conjunctions "mais" or "or" for the English conjunction "yet"? I did not find a lesson on this.

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YashikaA1Kwiziq community member

in first example "La maison des Jackson est sur la gauche." can we use" de jackson" instead of "des jackson"?

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YashikaA1Kwiziq community member

In first example" La maison des Jackson est sur la gauche."

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