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Just to confuse things some more, there are several possible alternative English translations in addition to the one given here:
Je fais le lit après que tu t'es levé.I'm making the bed after you've got [US: gotten] up.
The French can also be translated as:I'll make the bed after you get up.I'll make the bed after you've gotten up.I'll make the bed after you're up.
Why "populaire animateur de...", and not "animateur populaire de..." ?
I translated this as 'Ce sera tellement rigolote' presuming we were talking about the 'farce' which is feminine. It was corrected as rigolo masculine. ?
Why we have "Qu'est-ce que serait Pâques sans chocolat" and Not "Qu'est-ce que Pâques serait sans chocolat".
Kind of looks like inversion which we don't do with est-ce que
How come its Les yeux but mes bras? Thanks ???
J'arrivai [ʒaʁive] et J'arrivais [ʒaʁivɛ] Ci-dessus: "The tricky part here is that the je form (j'arrivai) has the same pronunciation as the L'imparfait indicatif form J'arrivais. Mais on nous a appris à l'école que c'était:
Hi, this struck me as odd: "vous devriez peut-être considérer que la relation n'est pas n'est pas censée durer" - why not just "n'est pas censée durer"? Why the repetition?
Why is 'Daphné apprend-elle le français' correct while 'Daphné apprend-t-elle le français' is marked wrong. All the examples in the lesson add 't' when the verb does'nt elide.
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.
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