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Why is there a direct object pronoun in this sentence, "je poserai autant de vacances que je le pourrai"? What does "le" refer to here? Can you say, "je poserai autant de vacances que je pourrai"?
Hi,I'm doing B1 French and I generally understand the use of the subjunctive but got tripped up recently. The first example was " we want someone to guide us". ..."on veut que quelqu'un nous guide'
Am I right on thinking the subjunctive is guid+e relating to "on" which is 3rd person singular and therefore guide+e. Of course the " on veut que" demands the subjunctive.
In the second example " He wants that we guide him," ( Il veut que nous le guidions), the Subjunctive ending is guid+ions relating to "nous" which is 1st person plural therefore ends in "ions".
What adds to the confusion is that "on veut" is conjugated like "Il or "elle" but in informal use " on" can mean " we" which is "nous" in French. I hope I have explained everything well ( and as an aside j'éspere is not a Subjunctive trigger in the affirmative but is in the negative) so you may see why it's so difficult sometimes. Any comments gratefully received.
I knew that in inverted questions you use the subjunctive after verbs like 'Pensez-vous...' If you start the question however with 'Est-ce que vous pensez...?' does that rule about the subjunctive not apply? I ask because I had put 'Est-ce que vous pensez que ce soit un problème structurel' and this was marked with a correction to '.......c'est' instead of 'ce soit'
The lesson uses :"Ce lit fait 2 mètres de longueur."
But the answer: "Ma piscine fait 6 mètres de longuer" is marked wrong.
Why is that?
is translated above as:
I guess a woman's past from the way she holds her cigarettes
I would have translated the French to read "I guess a woman's past by the way she holds her cigarettes.
Why not just "jusqu'août"? What does the 'en" bring that is not already there? Thanks.
I’m done—what else can I say?
Can you explain why you can put bien meilleure after the noun? I know that meilleur always goes before the noun, but I did'nt realise that it could go after the noun when used with bien. Why is that?
'But at the moment I was putting it on' - how does that translate to 'mais au moment de l'enfiler' - where's the 'I' and why is it in present tense?
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