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pour utiliser une bouilloire dans une phrase je dis je n'ai jamais eu une bouilloire ou je n'a jamais possédé de bouilloire
C'est vraiment tard ! But he seems to be stressing "that". So "c'est" can be "that is" as well as "it is"?
Considering the followoing rule "In French, you use pendant/durant + [durée], or simply the duration itself, to express a duration with a clear beginning and end." Does the question below bot have both the options correct ?
the J'ai attendu ________ devant la gare (I waited for forty minutes in front of the station).
Pendant quarante minutes / quarante minutes
Thanks for reply.
kind regards,
Rahul
C'est très utile pour apprendre les mots et les expressions d'une dictèe que le sujet soit un film ou un réalisateur, ou tous les deux. On peut référer au film afin de bien comprendre ce qui on a essayé faire dans l'exercise de la dictée. Vous devrez le faire de temps en temps pour renforcer le leçon , pour mieux retenir ce qu'on a appris.
I was wondering if "je préfère rester dedans" would be an acceptable response?
This was a very enjoyable (and challenging) dictée (but then I do have a fetish for the subjunctive for some reason!)
A vocabulary question, however. I can't quite see what function the word "confondus" is playing in the sentence "Chaque fois qu'il franchissait le seuil d'une classe, élèves et professeurs confondus se taisaient à l'unisson." Clearly the sense of this is something like "Whenever he crossed the threshold of a classroom, pupils and teachers alike fell silent together", but how does "confondu" function in this? I suppose I'm asking how it literally translates, so I can make sense of its idiomatic use...
The lesson gives two examples: Tu te les brosses and Je me les brosse. Why are they not both brosses?
Pourquoi pas « je finirai dans 5 minutes »? The videos say the sentence means in 5 minutes I will have finished, so why doesn’t “dans” always take the future or future anterior? Thanks
Would it have been also OK to say "Je manque à ma douche chaude"?
Why "il y a eu une brouille" rather than il y avait une brouille" My understanding is "a eu" means something like "got." A single action in the past while "avait" implies an ongoing action. Sounds to me that the rift was more like an ongoing action than a single incident.
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