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Stevie C.C1Kwiziq community member

"Systematically"?What does it mean for an action to be "consider[ed to be] systematically in the past"? What does the "systematically" mean in this context?

Asked 9 years ago

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Emily L.C1Kwiziq community member

Omitting "que"

Asked 8 years ago

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Today's insightA way to simplify things is to think of short phrases as if they were single words. "il y a" is an obvious example. With "j'ai" as a single word, one does not have to think about the rule were the terminating vowel of a word must be replaced with an apostrophe when the next word begins with a vowel. And with "ce qui est", one does not need to think about the rules about when to use "ce que" vs "ce qui".

Asked 10 years ago

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Michael R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Passé composé neverAre negative statements in the past, e.g. jamais, mostly passe composé rather than imparfait. I can't décide if 'never' is an ongoing state (i never learnt to ski) or a terminated action (i never ate it) but as i write this i am thinking context dependant , but since i have already written it i will post it ; )

Asked 7 years ago

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Paul B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Case of "soi-même" Is the use of même optional in the examples given using soi-même?

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Nancy S.A1Kwiziq community member

I don’t understand how Julie beut du chocolat can mean Julie wants some chocolate and Julie wants chocolate

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Lisa K.A2Kwiziq community member

In your example of the tu form of appeler, is that correct?

j'appelle

tu appelles Shouldn't this be (t'appelles)? If not, why?

il/elle/on appelle

nous appelons

vous appelez

ils/elles appellent

Asked 7 years ago

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Jonathan G.B2Kwiziq community member

Je déteste les voyages != Je déteste voyager ? I do not understand this.

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Júnior N.A0Kwiziq community member

J'habite à Campina Grande. J'habite au Brésil!

Asked 9 years ago

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Walter B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Vous avez pu recontrer Sting?You give two translations: "You were able to meet Sting." "You could meet Sting." Shouldn't the second one read, "You could have met Sting."? I believe "You could meet Sting" is in the present conditional tense. Unless I have my tenses all mixed up ...

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