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"Bonjour
Can you please clarify for me why the answer on 1 of the questions - see below - contains "de" before the adjective and noun?
"Ta soeur et ses amis ont de jolies poupées."
I would have expected "des" because "poupées" is plural.
My daughter and they play together.
I thought it was, " them, " not, " they, " in English. I'm confused. I'd use Hugo and them, never Hugo and they. Huh?
Bonjour!
Verbs that use être as auxillary in the perfect past tense, must have agreement of the past participle with the subject pronoun, but what if a direct object pronoun were included in the sentence? Which of the two pronouns would a past participle agree with please? Subject pronoun or direct object pronoun? Please site an example or two with your answer if possible.
Regards, Cheryl
I love knowing and being able to use the more arcane aspects of grammar. I wonder, is it of any use learning this tense for dialogue, or is it solely literary in its applications?
Il fait du tennis (fait + de le)
Il joue au tennis (joue à + le)
I thought whether we use partitve articles should depends on the thing we modify instead of the verb
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