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In the context of "He lived and worked there as a slave until his master emancipated him in 1776." can one use émanciper? It wasn't accepted when I tried it. My dictionary only gave émanciper as the translation for emancipate. Now that I have learned affranchir, I will use it.
I got a question wrong, with more than one fault:
Nous nous sommes brossé les cheveux was given as the correct answer, but isn't "brossés" the correct form of the past participle in this sentence?
This sounds like an opinion to me. I thought it should be in the imparfait. Could someone kindly shed light on this for me?
Could 'les infos' be substituted by ' l'actualité ' or ' nouvelle ' Thanks
Hi all, I am not getting my head around the sentence- C'est la fameuse "auberge espagnole" du titre.. why is du titre at the end. thanks
How do you say “Not only…”?
In the audio for “Mais la ville essaie de prendre des initiatives écolos.” it sounds to me like a conjugated “prend” (i.e. silent “d”, so sounds like “pren”), instead of the infinitive “prendre”.
I would have thought the pastry would have been called "le gâteau" not "le biscuit" --the former is a cake, the latter is a cookie, and a bûche is a kind of cake. Also, do some recipes for la bûche call for spreading ganache inside? I have only read recipes that call for a whipped cream sort of filling, saving the ganache for the exterior. I'm about the make my annual bûche de Noël and wish it were as simple as this version!
Please can you explain the difference between these which both mean "we go". When is it correct to use "on" instead of "nous"?
Hi Kwiziq
When trying to answer the waterpolo query, my study notes indicated most of the time “jouer à” was used for team sports; plus if a ball is used, also “jouer à”.
I therefore used jouer, and it was marked wrong and I was supposed to use “faire de”.
Any comments on how you can help us to remember/learn this topic?
Thank you in anticipation.
Jo
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