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I was never aware "JACK and JILL' should take the pronoun Ils. It was my belief ILS was reserved for all boys only.
So now I see vous addressing the individuals IN the group. Sort of like ILS is they and VOUS is similar to America's deep South as y'all, or the northeast as in you guys.
So within the poem/song Jack and Jill went up the hill one wouldn't use the pronoun VOUS as it would change the meaning. Is that correct?
Not Y'ALL or You guys or VOUS went up the hill... Jack and Jill are not the audience.
THEY or ILS went up the hill to fetch... The audience is being addressed. Not Jack and Jill.
Dear professor, is that about right?
3. Nous donne-t-il des billets d'avion ?
Unlike other explanatory lessons in Lawless French, I find this lesson incredibly difficult to understand.(And. I think I'm a decent student!) I'd like to recommend that you all give it a big cleansing edit. And now, I'll go back and re-read it (for about the fourth time) and try to figure out what I'm supposed to learn.
In all your examples, the two subjects are different. But what happens when they are the same? Can you just use the infintive?
For example
Unless I want to buy something, I only need my house key.
À moins que JE veuille acheter quelque chose, JE n'ai besoin que de ma clé de maison.
À moins de vouloir acheter quelque chose, je n'ai besoin que de ma clé de maison.
Bonjour à tous,
Could you tell me how to say this in French ? Thanks
"On est censes marcher". I have never seen a lesson on this usage. Is censer a verb--I can't find it. Is there a lesson on this?
A quiz question has this answer:
"Qu'est-ce qui a changé entre nous ?"
Why there's no liaison after "qui", like "... qu'a changé..."?
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