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How do I say “hello aunt, it’s nice to see you”
Hunting through the comments, it appears there was a change mentioned 11 months ago, but Joseph's answer was not actually included and I wonder if the general grammar rule may have been deleted when the exception about Indicatif was added?
Celine's answer to John 3 years ago has some explanation of present tense vs. passé composé, but there is nothing like this in the actual lesson itself.
I stopped reading halfway through the many comments as it appears many other users have also previously felt the lesson did not have an adequate explanation...
Why wouldn’t you use “ ils balaieront/balayeront le sol avant nous venions “ in lieu of “avant nous ne venions “ ? I’m confused about the “ne” negation. What’s its purpose?
"Le français est parlé couramment par ________ 200 millions de personnes dans le monde."
French language is spoken by more than 200 million people around the world.
I put "plus que" since that felt like "more than" but the correct answer is "plus de." I'm struggling to understand this since it doesn't fit the same structure as the lesson examples (e.g. French is spoken by more people than Italian).
Thanks for any clarification!
Je ne comprends pas l’utilisation du passé composé dans la première phrase. Elle n'a pas encore fini au travail - en effet, elle dit qu’il fera vingt minutes avant de pouvoir partir - donc, pourquoi n'est-ce pas "J'aurai bientôt fini" plutôt que "J'ai bientôt fini"?
Comment quelque chose qui s’est passé déjà dans le passé peut-il être sur le point de se passer "bientôt" ? À la fin j'ai décidé que j'avais dû mal entendre, et j'ai écrit "Je bientôt finis" - mais non - c'était le passé composé qui a été voulu...et je me gratte la tête !
I had put "suffisante", as I thought that that was refering to the exigence (feminin). Is this masculine bcause "ce que" acts like "c'est" and requires a neutral ie masculin adjective? Or is the agreement with something other than exigence?
With pécho (stemming from choper), How would one conjugate it? Or do you not conjugate it at all. For example, nous chopons, becomes nous péchons or just nous pécho?
Does "Qu'est-ce qui ... ?" exist in French? I already understand Qui, & Qui est-ce qui questions.
Bonjour,
Pourquoi « Va-t-en » mais pas « Vas-en » , et « Vas-y » mais pas « Va-t-y » ?
Merci d'avance.
Pourquoi est-ce que vous utilisez « le visage » et ne pas « les visages » dans la phrase « mais entre la pluie torrentielle qui nous fouette le visage » ? Il y a plusieurs de personnes, n’est-ce pas?
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