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in this sentence from a roman policier La salle des meurtres by Phyllis Dorothy James
L’appartement, qui donnait sur Kensington High Street, arborait l’ordre excessif et impersonnel d’un logement préparé pour la visite de nouveaux locataires. L’atmosphère était un peu confinée ; bien qu’occupant un étage élevé, Dupayne avait pris la précaution de fermer ou de verrouiller toutes les fenêtres avant de partir en week-end.
Here bien que was not followed by subjonctif ! is that correct ? and would you replace it by bien qu'occupant un étage élevé, Dupayne ait pris la précaution .....
I was doing an Alevel french translation and encountered this. I could guess the meaning ‘24 free services are offered’ but I don’t get why the word order is like this.
Sont proposés 24 services gratuits, dont la recharge du téléphone et une coupe de cheveux.I don't understand why this sentence could have is avait pu, where in no. 4 the answer is aurait pu, both meaning "could have"
The commentary is simply too fast. May I suggest that you have a slower speed, in addition to the present one. Duolingo does this, and I find I need to break down the words -- then, I can play the faster speed, as I know conversations aren't done in a slow speed. But, as of now, the words simply run together and I can't discern individual words.
J'aime Paris en été ! Why is it not correct ?
Qu'est-ce-que cette citation veut dire ?
"he must be worried sick at the idea that I'm worried/anxious about his silence" ?
Quoi ? S'il a mal, avec intoxication d'alimentation, cloué au lit, il a plus des problèmes que si elle est inquiété, non ?
Si ça n'est pas correct, je n'en aucune idée.
Ceclie wrote:
La France est dotée d'un territoire aux climats et aux reliefs variés grâce ___ sa production agricole est très diversifiée = France has a territory with varied climates and landscapes thanks to which its agricultural production is very diversified.
The clue was in the hint = 'which' refers to 'le territoire".
Is it possible to use "grâce à quoi" without this clue ? I didn't pay attention to the clue below the sentence and my 1st thought (and the answer as well) was "grâce à quoi". I wonder if it also makes a sense here ?
je ferai gagner du temps à tout le monde - What's the expression here? Because I don't understand why "À" is used here?
Hi, in “si bien que nous avons foncé à l'hôpital.” why did “bien que” not trigger a subjunctive? E.g. “si bien que nous ayons foncé à l'hôpital.” UPDATE: I see that “si bien que” means “so much so that” and doesn’t trigger a subjunctive. I was incorrectly parsing this as “bien que” meaning “although”.
Why is the answer to this: Sarah ________ la salade à Michel.
se passe as opposed to passe?
Isn't this a simple act of passing something, as in the first example, "passer quelque chose"? I understood that it only needed the reflexive pronoun for something happening or someone doing without something. Can you enlighten me?
Thanks.
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