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Im just a bit confused since before i could always say Le ....... But now, they are correcting me, just because of the ''le''.
This never happended before, please explain to me, why this is happening?
On ne peut pas dire on peut le faire?
Why are Saints’ days feminine if the saint is masculine?
Are all feast days feminine?
The question was: they wanted to see them which I think is the imperfect tense. The order would then be: they them wanted to see.
However your answer is they wanted them to see.
I feel that this is an ambiguous statement and could be passé composé (as the act of transition) or l'imparfait (as a state of being). As in "My mother was Oriental, but my father came from Europe" vs. "They came from Europe to go to the funeral". Compare: "Once upon a time, a king lived in his castle."
À propos de la dernière phrase, est-ce qu'il serait possible d'employer "leur entreprise" au lieu de "leur commerce"?
While expressing present continous tense or future simple with present tense in french, I realy get confused on when to use auxiliary etre with subject pronoun and when not to use
Is it acceptable to say here instead:
Sur laquelle elle s'allongeait en rêvassant pendant des heures.?
If the expression was write your name here, an action for signing an agreement, could you use ecrivez in place of incrivez which means register.
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