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Is there any way of speeding up the audio to something more akin to proper speech?
On peut aussi exprimer la même chose ("...was released last week") avec la voix passive ?: "Le nouveau James Bond a été sorti semaine dernière"
Why is it singular for "globe oculaire?" The English phrase would seem to be "in the shape of eye balls" since glaçons is plural. It would be a bit strange to write in English "eye ball shaped ice cream scoops." There are just too many qualifiers of scoops, IMHO.
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I had a question on this translation: I don't remember this film.
Why does it translate to: Je ne me souviens pas de ce film. I don't understand the placement of the 'de'?
Thank you!
Why is "pouvoir" before "les utiliser" in the fourth sentence? The English to be translated was just "in order to use".
The end of the passage states, "d'ici trois jours ouvrables" or "dans", but the English phrase to translate is "within" so should en not be used instead of dans? En being within and dans being similar to after ex number of days.
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Can you explain how to determine which nouns are masculine and which are feminine?
Merci
Why is the "il lui coupait" in imparfait and not passé composé? It interprets the first actions (aunt speaking), so I thought it should be passé composé.
If : Je l'y retrouverai plus tard.
is this : I'll meet him/her there later.
then : I'll give it to him there latershould be : Je l'y lui donnerai plus tard ?
or : Je le lui donnerai là plus tard
Please explain why one is correct and the other is not.
As near as I can tell, no transitive usage of DESCENDRE is followed by a preposition, and whenever descendre does take a preposition, it's an intransitive verb. This doesn't tell which of the many meanings of DESCENDRE obtain, but it does seem a reasonable heuristic device. Your thoughts....?
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