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I stumbled across a French grammar exercise and I don't understand the solution. "Tu as appelé tes parents? Oui, je leur ai téléphoné ce matin." I thought that we always used COD with appeler quelqu'un, so is there a mistake or what is the exception? Why is this not the case here?
Can I say, "Tu prends ton café avec lait?" to ask if someone takes their coffee with milk? This is a direct translation from English.
“Ma petite sœur est rigolote” the vocalisation above clearly emphasises the final e in both petite and rigolote, when at other times, with other speakers, I only hear the final consonant. Is this just a matter of individual accent, or should the final e be clearly pronounced as a general rule?
There seemed to be two acceptable answers. No one arrived and Nothing arrived. I picked the 2nd option thinking you could be talking about an object or things possibly you were waiting to receive in the mail. Couldn’t this sentence be translated to nothing arrived especially if you were expecting a letter which is a feminine and aucune could be used as a pronoun for letter ?
In one of the examples, the phrase is C'est la robe que je porte au travail. Yet C'est is supposed to be used for general, unspecified statemements. The dress I wear to work seems very SPECIFIC, it is not a dress she wears to school, or to go shopping. What am I missing or not understanding?
In the last sentence, in the passage " rappelle-moi dès que tu trouveras le temps de parler" I didn't hear the "dès" at all, even after listening several times. Is this just how the French (or Parisians specifically) talk all the time?
pourquoi on dit
Je me suis fait faire les ongles la semaine dernière.I had my nails done last week.
Mais pour "I had my hair brushed."
On dit "Je me suis fait brosser les cheveux," et pas "Je me suis fait faire brosser les cheveux." ? merci
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Et Samuel se cache derrière le même buisson que Vincent
Et Samuel se cache derrière le même buisson comme Vincent
Are these two expressions the same?
The answer given is je l'ai ecoutee. Why isn't it Je lui ai ecoutee, as we are listening to her? Ah, is is because it's not a transitive 'to', ?
It would be great to have more exercises like this.
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