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How would you say - Paul should have had to leave earlier - is that the 2e form, il eut du?
Why is the conditional called 'present' when the stem is the same as the future tense
Peux-je remplacer "veuillons, veuille, veuillez" avec "Voulons, veux, voulez"à l'impératif?
Why in this sentence are we using past perfect in one part and subjunctive present in the other? For temporal coherence, shouldn't we use the subjunctive past in the second part?
Also, can we use 'reprimande' in French, instead of remarques, for reprimand in English?
Why was it necessary to use the 'passe compose' of falloir here?
Referring to: j'ai semé de nouvelles graines que j'ai recouvertes de compost
Someone once shared a list of French verbs (probably from the lawless French) which take the preposition 'de' to denote "to do something with/by another thing", where intuitively one would want to use 'avec'. For example: 'La ville est entourée de collines.' Here, the natural translation is 'The city is surrounded by hills. Along the same line: 'Le jardin est recouvert de neige.' --> The garden is covered with snow!
Can anyone please share that list here also?
It seems to me in spoken French you can say "Personne ne s'interesse" (or maybe "personne s'interesse") but apparently that's incorrect and, when a group is mentioned beforehand, you have to say "Aucun(e)"? If that is so, why is that?
How the être is used in a talk or writing , like when you are talking with a group of people or just one person , or you are writing to a person something like that . So can I used like the voir or not.
On the lesson it says "In English, we drop the when talking about things in general"
However, on the mini quiz when asked what this means in English, it keeps the the
1. Elle n'aime pas les chats
Correct answer: She doesn't like the cats.
2. Il aime le fromage
Correct answer: He loves the cheese.
What's wrong here? I use these tomatoes. These are the last ones.
Ce sont is correct.Ceux-ci is marked as wrong.When to use ‘je me sens’ and when ‘je sens’! The question was "Je ne sens rien." can mean?: and one correct answer was 'I don’t feel anything'. I thought that was incorrect as ‘me’ was needed for ‘feel' , but seemingly not, so when is it? Couldf someone explain please?
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