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Hi, in “d'où l'on pouvait admirer la vallée du Rouvres en contrebas,” is the “l’” in “l’on” purely for euphonics (i.e. it carries no meaning)?
1. Ses déclarations étranges auront déconcerté le public.
how to write this in passive form?
If I remind you of your nanny is 'Je vous rappelle votre nounou.' What is 'I remind your nanny of you'? Is it 'Je rappelle vous à votre nounou' but I don't think this is correct!
I used revenir for "coming home". Is this wrong? And when should we use each verb?
Thanks.
PS it's almost impossible to do À - it changes to à
Why can’t I say “Je le trouve grossier/irrespectueux?” As the sentence read “I find it disrespectful?”
Why not 'chez la tante' rather than 'à la tante'? I thought for a person it should be chez?
I do not understand why in the above sentence écrit (pp of écrire?) has an 'extra' e. I understand this only applies to être verbs + avoir if object preceeds verb?
John M
Dear Céline,
I would be most grateful to know why "du" appears in "Vous vous rappeler du petit restaurant italien ..." and "de" in "Tu te rappelles ton professeur de maths."
Regarding the question ?How could you say "You need a new bike." ??
I think "devoir" would be acceptable as I perceived the possibility the person used the bike as a necessary form of transportation and the bike was either to broken to repair or was used for work. In that case they would really need to replace the bike making devoir acceptable.
Or maybe I'm just reading too much into the questionÉ
When can you use in past tense or
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