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Can you please explain the difference in meaning between "Tu peux ne pas venir." and "Tu ne peux pas venir"?
Correct: It's hot and I feel like getting/having an ice cream.
Why do the infinitive passe not agree in gender or number in these cases?
Hello, in this story, when they are at the library, shouldn't 'choose' be used here rather than 'chose'?
Thanks.
If des becomes de in front of an adjective that precedes a noun, why is this correct: je suis jaloux des nouvelles bottes ....? Here des is used preceding the adjective...
Why am I not putting an e at the end (a tenu and not a tenue if we're speaking of a féminine thing)?
Why in this sentence 'francaise' is omitted? The English text does contain the adjective 'French', that is to say
Pour moi, la meilleure joueuse de tennis française sera toujours Amélie Mauresmo.
J'avoue que je suis toujours un peu brouillard au suject des circonstances dans lesquelles une verbe réflexive ne crée pas d'accord avec le participe passé, mais, pour moi, il ne semble pas d'y être un COD de plus.... donc je ne comprends pas pourquoi il n'est pas "Tous les médias s'en sont donnés à cœur joie...."
Je n'ai pas encore trouvé le trésor !
I haven't found the treasure yet!
Je ne pense pas encore à mon avenir.
I don't think of my future yet.
It seems to me that "not yet" expresses something that's ongoing, so should always be in the present like the second example. In the first example I'm still searching for the treasure, so shouldn't it be in the present? Is it the "haven't" that changes the tense?
Thanks in advance.
As the speaker is female, should “Bonjour Marc. Je suis demi de mêlée” be “Bonjour Marc. Je suis demie de mêlée”?
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