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Could you also say here ' nous étions allés écouter des chants de Noël à l'église locale.'?
In the next to last sentence would it be more polite to ask "Je vous devrais combien?" instead of "je vous dois...."
Is this just one of those "that's just the way it is" things? "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela ?" would be "Qu'est-ce que c'est qui est cela ?" to make grammatical sense. Wouldn't it?
I just did a quiz and got an answer wrong. I answered d' in front of eau but the correct answer was de l'.
If that is the case, why do the French say carafe d'eau and not carafe de l'eau?
Since girls are hugging each other… why are we not using s’enlacées ?
Why "ils ont pris le temps" (passe compose). It seems to me this should be "ils prenaient les temps" (imparfait). This part of the sentence describes the background. Also, this is an opinion. I note that the same sentence uses provenaient (imparfait)
A2 question « The family are totally unbearable.
La famille est
Les familles sont
La famille sont
Les familles est
The question is incorrect in English,hence it prompts an incorrect answer in French. I suggest that the English version be written correctly (singular) so that the student is not misled.
“On vous appellera quand on arrive” would be considered an acceptable, if casual sentence, as opposed to “on vous appellera quand on arrivera” which is a bit clunky, no?
Isn’t there a way to imply each/every another way?: je mange une pomme le matin, ou je me promène le soir.
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