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Is there a logical explanation for why we don't say "rendre visite aux"? For example, we can say "Je rendre visite à mes parents" but we can't say "Je rends visite aux mes parents"?
J'ai choisi abimer au lieu de ruiner, un mot qui n'était pas dans mon vocabulaire avant. C'était un mauvaise utilisation d'abimer ? Dans la même phrase, j'ai utilisé jolie au lieu de belle. Un autre mauvais choix?
If you translate 'the few savings she had left' as 'les maigres économies qui lui restaient' it is corrected to 'les maigres économies qui lui restait'. Is this a mistake?
The fill in the blanks exercise was about people arriving in a new town, to find the streets empty of people. "Tous les magasins de la ville étaient fermés." This was followed by a sentence in the past tense (walking on empty streets from 3pm till 5pm) Then came the sentence being queried (post below). Thanks so very much to all who responded earlier.
I thought that "Je vais appeller mon agent de voyage demain" would convey a more immediate sense of will call v/s "J'appellerai ...". Or is it the "demain" that makes it more correct to use the Futur mode?
Why is it "je te l'avais dit" and not "je te l'ai dit!"?
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i don't understand the translation. why is "she would read" translated to "elle lisait" and not "elle lirait"?
i thought that "would" is conditional verb in english so it should be translated too to conditionnel in french? need any explication
A little unclear re the use of the above. What is the difference, if any, between the following ?:
J'ai peu d'amis and J'ai quelques amis
I am using an iPad and for some reason I can hardly ever get the arrow for the voice recording to play twice. I would really like the option of being able to listen to the recording once, then write what I think I hear, then play the recording one more time to check what I’ve written. Is this a problem only with iPads or are other people having the same challenge? Thanks.
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