Weekend workout: Trouble on the way to holidayIn that exercise there is one sentence whose English doesn't quite jibe with me:
-- The kids finished the ones we'd brought.
I don't think the use of past perfect tense here corresponds to what you would actually use in English. You'd be more likely to hear:
-- The kids finished the ones we brought.
But I realize that in French you would actually use le plus-que-parfait:
-- Les enfants ont finis celles que nous avions emportées.
As it stands, the English sounds a bit off but it gives a strong hint as to which tense to use in the French version. Still, I would use imperfect in English and, if necessary, provide a hint for the French.
What do the professionals think?
My grammar comprehension through the quizzes is proceeding well. I am 1/2 way through A2; but my listening comprehension is lagging. I seem to be at A1 at best; very difficult to understand spoken french. Should i be spending more time on listening and less on grammar, or do i need the grammar (future anterior, simple past etc) to understand spoken conversations?thankstony
"Avez-vous ton crayon?" This sentence here mixes a formal (or plural) pronoun with a familiar possessive adjective, which doesn't feel correct. Could I get confirmation that "ton, ta, tes" works for whomever is directly spoken to?
In that exercise there is one sentence whose English doesn't quite jibe with me:
-- The kids finished the ones we'd brought.
I don't think the use of past perfect tense here corresponds to what you would actually use in English. You'd be more likely to hear:
-- The kids finished the ones we brought.
But I realize that in French you would actually use le plus-que-parfait:
-- Les enfants ont finis celles que nous avions emportées.
As it stands, the English sounds a bit off but it gives a strong hint as to which tense to use in the French version. Still, I would use imperfect in English and, if necessary, provide a hint for the French.
What do the professionals think?
But the Note says that ceci means former and cela means latter. Which is correct?
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
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