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I am doing B1 French and reading Camus La Peste( hard going sometimes) On page 173 he says"elles suffirent" which I take to mean they were enough,and I struggled with the conjugation but I found it as passive simple on the Lawless website. I interrogated Gemini AI and it suggested that passive simple is a compound tense requiring auxiliary from etre...despite its name. It also suggested Camus often used passe simple in a stylistic for without the auxiliary. So,is the Lawless conjugation right,and is elles suffirent passe simple, and please,what is going on?
Biscuits is plural. Surely it should be:
I had eaten all the biscuits, and there were none left for the guests!
Thanks, Stephen
Not really a question, but I found the speaker who spoke this text at the end of the session easy to keep up with as I speak the passage aloud myself. Quite often I find the male speakers used speak extremely rapidly for my rather slowly spoken French.
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.
Can some help me further please . Today in the news, Lionel Jospin, the ancien premier ministre said: "Le president pouvait se donner le temps de peser les risques qu'il (faisait prendre au pays)". Is faire prendre a locution? in word reference, I can't see it mentioned. Are there any lessons on faire usage as locution. thanks for your help.
Why are there 9 different types of past tense? NINE?! 🤯 Will even a native speaker really use all those? I give up lol
The examples of use of the passive voice use is, will be, would be, was and used to be. Please provide an example of "had been". Is it for example "La souris avait été par le chat"?
Why is it "était DE" here? Why is the "DE" used ?
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