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Robert S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
A more basic question:In the example "Ils attendent son arrivée d'une minute à l'autre" would the wording be different if the person awaited is female?
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Brian B.B1Kwiziq community member
It looks like there's a problem in the third box (second green one). The text makes no sense.This doesn't make sense and it doesn't include any example!
"In order to turn a sentence from active to passive voice, the  tense of the auxiliary  be  must be the  Saami have the tense of the verb hand  of the active sentence. 
For example:"
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Frank S.C1Kwiziq community member
it seems someone would give "plusieurs" fleurs but there would be "de nombreuses" fleurs in a field.
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CrystalMaiden 7.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Can you use eut/fut instead of avait, is that wrong?I know it's only gonna be right for literary writing and storytelling, but still. You can do that instead of the pluperfect in writing, right?
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Shruti C.A1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Hello

Please if you can help me out to understand where to put de+infinitive. I am so confused. 

Par example- laissez-moi de penser pourquoi de ici ? 

C’est mon rêve de travailler à l’étranger. Why I putted de here I can simply write c’est mon rêve travailler.

Et je sais que je dois pratiquer. Why here it’s not de after pratiquer? 

Please if you can share me the lesson of this I have tried to search a lot but I am not able to understand properly where to put de+infinitive and where not.

Thank You :)

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CrystalMaiden 7.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Do I always have to use " en silence " instead of " silencieusement " ?
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Paul B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
aller à and aller bien àCan you please explain when to use bien. In the examples where bien is used it is sometimes translated as "really" and sometimes ignored in the translation.
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Ann H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Aren't there some past participles that don't ever agree? In 501 verbs, some are listed with their pp showing possible agreement and some not. Eg réveillé(e)(s) but réussi
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R. E.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Why not use elle instead of lui in the above sentence Il lui envoie deux millieurs de roses. Same for Il lui envoie deux mille rose? Are these typos?
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D. V.C1Kwiziq community member
Je m'attendais à ce que tu me demandes en mariage.According to the lesson as I understand it, this has a negative connotation.  As in, I was afraid/nervous/apprehensive you would ask me to marry you. Do I have that right?  Also, if one wanted to say, “I was waiting (with excitement) for you to ask me to marry you”, would it be J'attendais que tu me demandes en marriage.?
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