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Hi 

can there be a lesson on the order of two or more adjectives for example

petit , and nouvelle

how would you order them?

une petite maison nouvelle?

une petite nouvelle maison?

une petite et nouvelle maison?

In the sentence 'when France won the World Cup ' I used remporté instead of 'gagné' but it remporté wasn't given as an option. Is there a subtle difference in their respective meanings?

I thought this was "je recommanderais" - "which I would recommend" - rather than "which I will recommend".

Two questions: 

1) In this context, would the French always say "I will recommend" rather than " I would recommend"?

2) If not, is there any way of detecting the difference, aurally, between first person in the future and in the conditional ?

I'm curious about why there's always a question about coudre, moudre and hair in the C1 tests. I understand that they're irregular and need to be learnt, but the questions are always in the present tense, and it seems pretty straightforward for C1. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to make them e.g. A2, and include a wider range of irregular verbs? I feel there are other questions that would be more appropriate and useful for C1.

Not complaining :-), just curious.

How to make sure your translations  are correct in English to French 

My question concerns the imparfait conjugation of the verb 'exister' in the sentence:

Aussi, lorsque j'ai appris qu'il existait un musée qui...

I would like to know if conjugating here in the imparfait (existait) does not imply that the museum used to exist, but no longer does.  I am inclined to want to conjugate 'exister' in present tense to get around this problem, yet I know its gramatically incorrect to do so. If someone can help, I would greatly appreciate.

Have a good day all :)

Nous nous émerveillions toujours devant les champs de fleurs sauvages qui avaient tout juste commencé à éclore après l'hiver. 

Merci mille fois!

Hello. Is it really possible to find out, which tense i should use, if i only see this first part of the sentence, without knowing whats following?

When we arrived in the changing rooms,