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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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Hello! I was always taught that adjectives related to beauty, age, goodness and size went before the noun. I was wondering why the translation is “une toile monumentale” rather than une monumentale toile. Thank you!

Est-ce ta trousse ? - Oui, c'est la mienne. 
Is this your pencil case? - Yes, this is mine.

In the above example, how is la used?

From my knowledge, le/la/les can be used for the following reasons:

1. to say 'the' as a definite article
2. to generalize (la vie est compliquée - life is complicated)
3. as a direct object pronoun (le - him, la - her)

does the usage of la come under any of the above categories or is it used in a new way that i must learn?

Hello there, need some serious professional advice on understanding french language. It's been 2 months since I started learning french, i knew vew few things like numerals, alphabets, and i can able read and comprehend short sentences. My concern is that currently I'm doing everything and retaining nothing up in my brain. I'm watching YouTube videos and reddit and alot more things but unfortunately it's becoming tough day-by-day. I skipped the "conjugation part" and tried to learn vocabulary but that didn't click to me. I feel everything is there but I'm not getting it. 

Why does travail need to be feminine in this context pleas

I do not understand the last sentence.  Why use the third person singular with "nous"?  Or should this be "on" not "nous"?

For example, if we're picking out paint colors and I said "Do you like the purple?" I'm talking about a specific thing, would that not be Il est...?

Edit: And it just came up again, this time as "Tu aimes l'école?"  That again is lacking context, are we walking about a specific school or school in general?  

Would you ever say "regarder à" to mean "look at"? Or is the "at" implied?

I answered “à moins qu’elle ait fermée.”

The correction used être to conjugate fermer into the past tense.  Why?