Unexpected position for “leur”Hi, with regard to:
“when suddenly, an enormous sawshark swam above their heads!”
Half of the answers are of the type:
“quand soudain, un requin-scie énorme est passé au-dessus de leur tête !”
This set is in a format that I’ve encountered many times.
The other half are of the type:
“lorsque soudain, un requin scie énorme leur est passé au-dessus de la tête !”
This set is outside of my grammatical experience. I’m okay with the “leur tête/la tête” difference, as I’ve learned that in French we don’t always use the possessive “leur”, and can use a definite article such as “la”, especially when the owner of the body part is obvious. But could you explain why in these “la tête” answers a “leur” has appeared in each case earlier in the sentence. Is this early “leur” necessary in order to change “leur tête” to “la tête”? How can we consider this early “leur” to connect to the later “tête” when it is separated from it so much?
I wrote á chaque soirs Elle lui raconte un histoire. To mean every night she told him a story and got it wrong in the quiz .and the acceptable answer was: Tous les soirs, Elle raconte un histoire. Doesn’t á chaque soirs also mean every night?
in the sentece 'a variety of TV programs appeared..' one answer conjugates apparaitre with etre: 'À cette époque, une variété de programmes télé sont apparus..' . I would have used 'avoir'. Ami I missing something or am I just having a bad day?
La traduction de " students were welcomed by..." n' est-elle pas "furent accueillis" au lieu de "ont été accueillis" ?
FR: J'ai aussi du champagne au frigo.
Why is ''aussi'' used here even though ''also'' isn't mentioned in the English sentence? Am I missing something?
What is the difference between très and trop? Because it corrected me when I said "Il est très drôle" instead of "Il est trop drôle". Thanks!
Hi, with regard to:
“when suddenly, an enormous sawshark swam above their heads!”
Half of the answers are of the type:
“quand soudain, un requin-scie énorme est passé au-dessus de leur tête !”
This set is in a format that I’ve encountered many times.
The other half are of the type:
“lorsque soudain, un requin scie énorme leur est passé au-dessus de la tête !”
This set is outside of my grammatical experience. I’m okay with the “leur tête/la tête” difference, as I’ve learned that in French we don’t always use the possessive “leur”, and can use a definite article such as “la”, especially when the owner of the body part is obvious. But could you explain why in these “la tête” answers a “leur” has appeared in each case earlier in the sentence. Is this early “leur” necessary in order to change “leur tête” to “la tête”? How can we consider this early “leur” to connect to the later “tête” when it is separated from it so much?
Hi -
I was trying to work out how you would say 'if the weather is good, we can take a walk in the park'. From the above it looks I can either use Se Promener or Faire une Promenade, but im not sure how to combine these with Pouvoir. I assume using 'Faire' it would be:
-s'il fait beau, nous pouvons faire une promenade dans le parc.
1) Is this correct?
2) Is there a way of saying this using the reflexive verb/conjugation with se promoner?
Thank you :)
The audio of this exercise was having difficulty -- one can't replay the dictées and the replay of the whole dictation broke up into disjointed bits and pieces. Can this be fixed?
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