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14,408 questions • 31,178 answers • 927,064 learners
In today's quiz all the content was in English! I am already an Anglophone...
Was that a glitch, was there an English/French toggle I didn't see or what?
Why is this not in the passe compose? tout le monde a eu son ....
Which is correct je ne veux pas or que ne je voulais pas
Why does pronom relatif eliminates a subject complement.
Eg:J'ai rencontré par hasard une amie;je ne l'avais pas vu depuis mon enfance.
In the one question they use 'en': "Il s'en souvient. = He remembers it." I don't see anything in this lesson explaining when we would use en with this verb?
In this exercise, which asked to conjugate verbs in Plus-que-parfait, I wrote the following sentence: Marc lui avait souri et Gilles avait deviné tout de suite que Marc avait capturé son âme! My « avait capturé » was marked down and corrected to be « avaient capturé ». I cannot understand why a 3rd person plural conjugation is being used here instead of singular since the sentence talks about one person, Marc, who caught/captured Gilles’s soul.
Is it usual in French to use “parfum” to describe the taste of food? Or is the speaker describing the smell of the food? If the speaker is speaking of the good smell of food, is this a usual expression concerning food as well?
Is it possible to say ' bien au-delà d'un cadeau quelconque '?
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