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En avril, ne te découvre pas d'un fil
Til April's dead, don't remove a thread (of your clothing)
I had written 'Il me faut aller sur le toit', which Kwiziq corrected to 'Il faut que j'aille sur le toit'. I know the construction 'il faut + subjunctive', but could you not use the infinitive when there is the same subject in the main and relative clause? Or does the meaning of the sentence change? Thank you
Hello, i dont always want to do dictation. How do i listen to and read the French at the same time?
This is about translating "no one had salted the road". Here you mean the "roadway", also called "the pavement" in British English, which I translated as "la chaussée" instead of what was given, "la route".
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.
In the sentence "Est-ce que cette table vous convient ? " why is convient correct and its not convenez please?
Hello,
I was wondering, for this question:
Il y a un ________ arbre près de la vieille fenêtre.why the answer is vieil and not vieux, like from the list on adjectives that go before nouns?
Tous les jours, je fais des efforts pour aider la planète. Par example, quand je vais au supermarché, j'apporte mon sac en toile et j'évite les emballages de plastique. Et si j'achète un café à emporter, j'utilise ma tasse réutilisable. À la maison, je ne gaspille pas l'eau et he recycle mes déchets. Quand je ne peux pas faire de vélo, je prends les transports en commun ou je fais du covoiturage.
I understand that the partative article is used for uncountable amounts. e.g. 'je mange des pâtes'. It is clear that pasta is never going to be counted, so it makes sense it would be partative des.
However if i say 'je mange des carottes', I could mean a big plate of chopped up carrots which are uncountable, which would be partative des.
Or I could mean I am eating 3 whole carrots which are definitely countable. So would this be indefinite des?
Is it the context that would define which article is used?
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