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Is it correct to use 'rentrer' instead of 'retourner' in the last but one sentence?
If "Vous faites tous vos devoirs?" ranslates as "Are you all doing your homework?" Then, how does one say "Are you doing all of your homework?" in French?
Wouldn't ramener be a better verb that rentrer? Or at least it seems to me. And as an English speaker, no one would say that they "put back" a car into a garage.
In this lesson about de/d'in front of adjectives preceding nouns, there are examples:
des endroits magnifiques
de magnifiques gâteaux
I understand the point about using de when the adjective precedes, but why is magnifique used both before and after the nouns in these examples?
The two answers so far have differing advice. Could Cécile comment please?
Laura Lawless’s explanation seems to accord with Alan’s - se parler is one of "20 verbs for which the reflexive pronoun is always an indirect object" (That is, they’re talking to each other, not talking each other, and parlé is invariable.)
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/agreement-with-pronominal-verbs/
In the Quiz, "She'll be back in five."
Why is Elle revient dans cinq minutes, chosen over as the correct response and not "Elle va revenir dans cinq minutes"?
How do one differentiate when to use Le Present vs Le Futur Proche (aller + infinitive)?
Should this example:
J'ai acheté une jupe ! - Oh, c'est cher, les jupes !I bought a dress! - Oh, skirts are expensive!
Translate to:
I bought a skirt! - Oh, skirts are expensive!
Hello. Why doesn’t délicieux agree with la fondue suisse? I heard the correct pronunciation in the dictation, but I thought I must have been mistaken, so I wrote délicieuse.
Un enfant ou une enfant? Dans la texte "Ce ne sera pas une enfant pour toujours"
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