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By the time you are ready he will be gone already sounds very Jewish in English, already. The native speaker would say he will already be gone.
Comment: This may be grammatically correct in French, but in English, if you say that two people are ‘kissing themselves’, that would literally mean that each of them is kissing their OWN bodies (or parts of), And of course, this would be bizarre.
Why is it "d'une" and "de boire" ?
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https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/revision/glossary/pronoun-type/pronoms-d-objet-indirect-indirect-object-pronouns
This link says that an Indirect Object Pronoun can also be introduced by the preposition pour (for). But I can find only examples with preposition ' à (to)' ...Can you please share a few examples of Indirect Object Pronouns with preposition pour; can't find them in this lesson and other Indirect Object related lessons.
The question was “ tell your friends, don’t sit down!” Shouldn’t we use the tu form not the vous form in this case?
The audio for WC sounds like “VC” instead of “double VC”. Is this an error, or is it in fact how it is said in that context in France?
I always understood "le conditionnel présent" to mean "could," but here you're indicating that it means "would," which has a completely different meaning. Is that just true with "aller" or how do you tell when it's could or would?
Please would you explain why the use of juste seems quite arbitrary, in some of your examples it’s there, but not in others.
Thank you
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