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When can you use in past tense or
Il remporte un succés immédiat auprès du public. This sentence is translated to
It was an immediate success with audiences,Where is the past tense coming from why is the original not in passé composé?
Hi there,
In the examples given in this lesson one of the speakers pronounce "Elle s'assied avec Paul/Elle s'assoit avec Paul" with the d/t at the end.
I thought maybe this was due to having a vowel following it, but on the other examples above there are also "Avec" following the Assied/assoit and omitting the last consonant!
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Hi, I think there are too many hints in many of these exercises (including this one). Specifically, the type of hint that tells you what word or words to use. These prevent you from making your own attempt. Personally, I’d remove these.
referring to this sentence:
Et les au-revoirs qui n'en finissent jamais au téléphone.
How about "... jamais à l'appareil"?
I worked in a French-speaking environment where that phrase would often be used.
I can’t find anything in this lesson or links about third person plural verbs. It would be useful to have examples of this as well as the situation of il/ elle + inversion for verbs ending -ter (which is mentioned in a question below). Am I right in thinking the inverted forms are eg achètent-ils and achète-t-il?
The last sentence is Elle n'en croira pas ses yeux! Why is "en" used in this context?
Hello. Can you please explain why is le passé composé used in the first sentence?
"Mon frère et moi avons toujours aimé les jeux vidéos."
I thought this should be in l'imparfait because it describes a habit in the past and not something that just happened for a day, no?
I don’t understand why this translates in the present as well as in the historic past?
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