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The title of the Samuel Beckett play "En Attendant Godot" is usually translated as "Waiting for Godot". Would it be closer to the French original if the title were to be translated as "While Waiting for Godot", or even "Whilst Waiting for Godot"?
(I note that in the examples, you never use the word "whilst", always using "while" instead. )
1- I am unsure of when to use "personnes" and when to use "gens." I had, "Disons une trentaine de gens."
2- Why is it "Ma mère adore le fruit de la passion et l'ananas" with the definite article but "...mais les enfants préféreraient du chocolat" ?
I thought this was a general opinion and therefore chose the definite article "le" for "chocolat," as well.
This lesson is in my notebook so I'm in an endless loop here. I would like to do the kwiz for just this lesson. Seems like a coding problem. Apologies if this is the wrong place to report it.
Why is this not 'Je ne lui pensais guere' please?
Why is this incorrect? Il est aussi riche qu'ils
Hmm ...bit confused by the use of C'est in the translation for the very last sentence. Surely, the statement is not general (as per the hint) but applies specifically to 'les rogails a la saucisse ..etc. and is similar to examples in section 2b of the C'est/ Il/Elle est Tutorial ..... 'Tu aimes mon pull ? -Oui, il est très beau.'
Pourquoi on utilise le subjonctive avec cette phrase:
Ce sont les meilleures vacances qu'elle ait passées !
Mais pas avect celle-ci:
Ces chanteurs sont les pires que j'ai écoutés !
Je note l'explication qui suit:
Therefore, Le Mode Indicatif can only be used in such cases where the sentence refers to established true facts or statements.
I was going to write about 'very fun' here - it is a controversial phrase in English to say the least ! I haven't heard it used in about the past 60 years. However, I see this has come up in another topic, where 'very fun' was subsequently to be changed to 'great fun' - this should be done in this lesson as well. The preferred answers should also reflect that 'great fun' is not the same as 'very funny'.
While I am here, 'next week's test' - a student is talking, so the informal « l'interro » is more likely than « l'évaluation » unless a major assessment is proposed. Although the final transcript reasonably uses « le test », the correction board on the way through scrubbed « l'interro » for the more formal « l'évaluation », indicating that as the 'best answer' .
On the next screen « camarade de classe » for 'classmate' (correct) was crossed off for the imprecise and less formal « camarade ». Either should be indicated as being correct.
You say all along that nationalities as an adjective are spelt all lowercase and not capitalized like in english. However here it is capitalized and even underlined!
...or am i missing something?
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