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When doing an exercise for my french class, we had to change a word or phrase to a synonym from the text. In doing so I came across:
Nous avons DE bonnes relations. BUT Nous avons DES rapports cordiaux.
Looking up sentences on Reverso Context gave dozens of examples but always DE bonnes relations and DES rapports cordiaux.
Can anyone explain please?
I get that plusieurs represents a greater quantity than quelqu'un, but I'm struggling with the exercises because I can't keep track of whether they expect a few to represent a greater quantity than several or vice versa.
At least in the English I speak, the difference between these two words is subtle and comes down to feeling more than quantity.
Is there some other way to structure the exercises that doesn't rely on making novel (or at least regional) distinctions in English?
Est-ce qu'on pourrait dire "elle saura aussi avoir confiance en soi?" au lieu de dire 'elle saura aussi se faire confiance'?
how to know if the noun is masculine or feminine
For this question, could the answer be both "I myself play guitar" and "Even I play guitar"? This question was asked in the Kwiz.
There is a quiz question to translate 'I don't believe so'. The 'so' threw me off.
Apparently, the right answer is 'Je ne le crois pas.' It links to this lesson, the neuter 'le'.
I am wondering why the 'le' is a neuter pronoun and not a direct object pronoun? Is it because the way croire is used here is actually 'croire que'?
Second, when I checked the answer on AI (sorry), it tells me that 'I don't believe that' translates to 'je n'y crois pas'; and 'I don't believe so' is just 'je ne crois pas'. It seems to think that 'je ne le crois pas' can only mean 'I don't believe him' -- as in, 'le' must be a direct object pronoun.
Is any of the AI answer correct, or is it all rubbish? Je ne sais pas si je dois y croire!
Could one write finalement instead of enfin in this context or does it change the meaning?
How would one differentiate between "He hates the coffee shop" and "he hates the coffee" ? They Both seem to be "il déteste le café". Would you use "les cafes" for all of them and "c'est cafe" for a specific one?
Je me demande pourquoi "incomparables" s'accorde avec "légèreté et confort" plutôt qu'avec "une matière". N'est-ce pas la matière qui est incomparable, plutôt que les qualités de la matière ?
Hmm, après l'avoir écrit, je pense que je peux le voir dans les deux sens.... mais, n'empêche, n'est-ce pas une possibilité que l'accord pourrait être avec la matière quand-même ?
Instead of using être in 'to be clowns', can you use instead "s'agisser" (in the subjunctive present)?
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