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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 ..
«Depuis, impossible de trouver une position qui puisse soulager la douleur. Je ne peux ni dormir, ni m'allonger, ni me déplacer correctement.» Can the first sentence really stand on its own? It would make more sense to me if this were all one long sentence with a comma after “douleur”. Am I wrong?
How would you say « whom do you miss »?
C'est possible de rendre la vidéo accessible aux États-Unis?
Can you help me to understand when to use use y ane le/la to refer to something that has been talked about before, for example
1) Tu as vu ma message ?, tu y as répondu ?
2) Je pense d'aller à Paris, tu le penses ?
Greetings of the day!
what is the difference between " l'art plastique" and "le dessin"?
to - ma'am Cecile
thanks and regards
Clearly the nice and better is being used for the boyfriends (subject) and not is the verb, then why on earth are we using mieux here? It seems to be an error, feel free to correct me though.
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?
Hi,I'm doing B1 French and I generally understand the use of the subjunctive but got tripped up recently. The first example was " we want someone to guide us". ..."on veut que quelqu'un nous guide'
Am I right on thinking the subjunctive is guid+e relating to "on" which is 3rd person singular and therefore guide+e. Of course the " on veut que" demands the subjunctive.
In the second example " He wants that we guide him," ( Il veut que nous le guidions), the Subjunctive ending is guid+ions relating to "nous" which is 1st person plural therefore ends in "ions".
What adds to the confusion is that "on veut" is conjugated like "Il or "elle" but in informal use " on" can mean " we" which is "nous" in French. I hope I have explained everything well ( and as an aside j'éspere is not a Subjunctive trigger in the affirmative but is in the negative) so you may see why it's so difficult sometimes. Any comments gratefully received.
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