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How do you say “Not only…”?
I notice the recommended translations of 'who herself became Queen of France' are all 'qui elle-même devint reine de France'.
But I assume you could also write 'qui devint elle-même reine de France' ?
Or does this sound less natural to French ears?
There is a sentence in the text:
" les odeurs de cannelle et d'épices évoquent des souvenirs d'enfance"
I seem to get this wrong quite often - why is there no article after de in all of these cases (de cannelle, d'epices and d'enfance).
Thank you!
I would have thought (and did!) that it should be "ces héros ont souffert de la discrimination" rather than "ces héros ont souffert de discrimination"; in the same way that "ces héros ont subi de la discrimination" was noted as a correct answer.
Is there something specific to "souffrir de" that causes the article to be dropped?
Yes Paul. I agree with you. I never learned phrases like that in school. Would they be commonly used ie. Should I try to use them in conversation or would I get funny looks, haha?
Personally I din't like this exercise at all
Why is it "des problèmes" and not "de problèmes"
I just wondered if we have to use C'était un bâtarde rather then il était because Pip was not a human being
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