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Still not sure how to distinguish the use of these two. Any help?
3. Nous donne-t-il des billets d'avion ?
In the sense that in être verbs, additions such as e, s, es are made when nscessary? For example:
Passé Composé:
Je suis sortie ( I am a girl)
would Plus-que parfait be:
J'étais sortie or J'étais sorti?
Note that when "grand(e)" is used to describe people, different rules apply:
– un grand homme = a great man
– un homme grand = a tall man
– https://www.linguee.com/french-english/translation/grand+homme.html
– https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/french-english/un-grand-homme
I haven't yet found this distinction set out on Kwiziq, but on lawlessfrench.com we can compare the different treatment as between things and people on these two pages:
– https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/adjectives/
– https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/movable-adjectives/
Does anyone know why you say:
Je joue du piano but then you say: Je joue de la harpe
Does anyone know what the rule is for if you use Je joue de la or Je joue du?
In the exercise “La Super Chambre de ma Fille”, I filled the blank in the following sentence with the word “affiches” for “posters” but it marked my answer as Incorrect and said I should have used the word “posters”. Doesn’t “affiches” also mean posters?
elle a accroché des affiches des Avengers
Why is vous vous appellez require 2 vous’s
If I rewrite to "il lui reste des croissant du weekend", does this mean he have some croissants left from the weekend?
So when does one use mille and milliers de? Are they interchangeable?
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