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In what part of this sentence could you add "nearly", and what is the word for this? If I said, "My parents have been married for 20 years", or "Mes parents sont mariés il y a vingt ans", how would I say "My parents have been married for nearly 20 years" ? Does this require a different expression entirely? For context, I would be explaining that their wedding anniversary is next month.
Bon jour.
If indirect speech is in the present tense, is it necessary to replace ce/cette/etc with something?
E.g.
Sophie demande à Oliver: “Explique-moi cette règle !”
Elle lui demande de lui expliquer cette règle-là.
Because in the indirect speech we don't know what is "cette" règle.
L'adjectif "long" précède normalement le nom et si j'ai "a big white house", c'est une grande maison blanche, n'est-ce pas? Pourquoi dans le cas des cheveux sont-ils "les cheveux longs et raides" et pas "les longs cheveux raides"? Merci.
AVEC DE (du, des) vs aux Is there a rule for this?
Salade DE
Saumon AVEC DU , DES
Poulet AVEC DES
Pâtes AUX Gâteau au...AVEC glace
aux pommes AVEC crème
In another French course, some years ago, I was given the sentence :
"Ça fait trois ans que je l'ai, et je n'ai pour ainsi dire pas eu d'ennui avec."
This appears to end with a preposition. Is it wrong?
I've a feeling I've been here before in another dictée ! I thought that it was the number (singular)[of vowels] that was present. I can't get my head round why "présentes" agrees with "de voyelles". If "de voyelles" weren't there, it would read, "..le nombre présent au tirage." "The number" is still something singular, however many things it might be encompassing, surely ?
What am I missing here?
The lesson says:
Conjugations of APPARAÎTRE (to appear) in Le Passé
Composé (Indicatif) in French
j'/je
suis apparu(e)
tu
es apparu(e)
il / elle / on
est apparu(e)(s)
nous
sommes apparu(e)s
Why do we use j'ai toujours eu for "I have always had"? My understanding is the passe' compose' of avoir implies "I got" more than "I had". If we want to say "I had" we should use j'avais.
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