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The above is the translation given for "a pair of black trainers" to describe what a wanted criminal was wearing, but alternatives given include "une paire de baskets noire", which seems unnatural as it’s the shoes that are black, not the pair. Is it a typo or a real alternative in French? I may be overthinking this, but in English "pair" would generally be omitted (as in some of the alternative correct answers). It’d be odd if he weren’t wearing two of them..
In a quiz, I used brun instead of marron. Why is it wrong?
In the lessons on endings it says that amongst the exceptions endings …eur are feminine but the answer was marked as masculine. This answer does not follow the lessons rules. Please could you explain
Could you explain why one cannot say "On construit un beau château de sable" instead of using faire? Conceptually, making a sandcastle imeans, at least in English, constructing a sandcastle.
The test is not right: it marks "tu dois" as incorrect
I think there were two words that could have been used, including brouille. When I looked up rift in Wordreference, it gave me rupture in this context. Is that not a possibility ?
"Je ne serais pas contre un petit pastis" - could you also say, "Je ne serais pas contre un peu de pastis? It seems that pastis is a liqueur therefore you would be referring to "a little bit of pastis" versus as translated which seems to say "a little pastis" (in terms of size, for example). Thank you.
Le pluriel est "tuyaux", pas "tuyaus" comme indique la réponse de QuizIQ.
Salut ! The reason given for the adverbs not matching in gender and number is because 'they do not have gender', but neither do adjectives, which are matching the noun they refer to I believe- so is there another way for us to describe it? Like; adjectives refer to nouns, and adverbs refer to verbs, (verbs have no gender). This kept confusing me, every time i re-read it, Cheers
Est-il correct de mettre une espace avant un point d'exclamation? J'ai été surprise par cela !
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