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Please could you explain why prochain is placed in front of 'concert', when it is normally placed after nouns?
"Elle est soulagée de ne pas devoir être opérée."
Is this the infinitif passé, please?
And if not - what!
I'm not sure why but in this lesson, the examples I see are all in English. There is no French translation. Anyone else had this problem? I have seen it once or twice before.
Why does the verb 'détester' not require the ne explétif in this sentence: Les filles détestent que vous les embêtiez.
My answer:
Et, en dépit d'elle, Katia commença à espérer.
Lawless answer:
Et, malgré elle, Katia commença à espérer.
I'm not sure why my answer was not accepted. Appreciate any insight. Thanks!
Could "bivouaquer" be used to say set up camp?
Dans la deuxième phrase, nous devons traduire le mot, infuriating. Vous avez choisi "exaspérant" et je crois que vous avez aussi donné la possibilité "énervant". J'ai choisi "rageant" qui n'était pas acceptable. C'est un mauvais choix ? Pour moi, je pense que rager implique plus d'émotion que exaspérer ce qui est exactement le cas entre infuriate et exasperate en l'anglais. Vous n'est pas d'accord ?
I would have translated this as Elle est malade. Elle aura du oublié de mettre son écharpe.
If both are correct, what is the difference between them?
Does the placement of 'Du tout' affect the overall meaning of the sentence? Could it be placed in different places to give the sentence different meanings? Are there any rules of where (before or after what) we are allowed to place 'du tout' ? How does the placement of 'du tout' change when there are prepositions within the sentence ?
I look in the examples, and see 'du tout' placed after adjectives and nouns, does that negate other parts of the sentence?
So the question was:
How would you say ''You haven't lived here long.'' ?
1. Tu n'as pas habité ici depuis longtemps.
2. Tu n'habites pas ici depuis longtemps.
3. Tu n'habitais pas ici depuis longtemps.
4. Tu ne vas pas habiter ici depuis longtemps.
So the instructions are that with negation depuis is in passe composé, so I picked the answer number 1, but in results this was wrong as they wanted present - answer number 2.
What gives?
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