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Would someone please explain to me why you would write "Je me brosse les dents deux fois par jour." in stead of "Je me brosse mes dents ..." I'm uncertain why you couldn't use mes even though you're also using the reflexive verb. Merci!
How to translate la femme? eg the answer given was this girl? How to know whether it's this or that or the?
I am not sure why the subjunctive is used here. I understand that trouver takes indicative in the affirmative, but subjunctive if negative. Here it is affirmative, so presumably the word étrange is causing the change in tense. Perhaps because étrange has a negative connotation, or perhaps simply because it is an adjective, as in être étrange que ..
Just wondering why convenir is conjugated with vous as 'vous convient'. Shouldn't it be vous convenez? Please clarify. Merci!
What pronoun could work for a mixture of life genders as a collective pronoun :They(John and Mary) are eating.
"Il rappelle son ex à Maria."
What is the translation of "He reminds Maria of his ex."?In other words, how do we know whether the possessive pronoun refers to the subject or the indirect object?
Isn't "après-midi" masculine, and if so should it not be:
cet après-midi sera consacré
Why is it "des" here, when there is (presumably) only one Martine?
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