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?
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..."?
In the song "Aux Champs-Élysées" the first line is "Je m'baladais sur l'avenue".
Is this a specific exception where you can use "sur" instead of "dans"?
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?
What do we add before the noun of the day? For example, Je travaille le lundi/ en lundi/ à lundi?
Nous mangeons du poulet.
Nous prenons un peu de poulet.
The first sentence is "de + le poulet" but the second is "de poulet". Is this because of the "un peu" modifier? What's the rule?
I write a daily journal in French and was just trying to write that I miss doing something. I cannot decide whether that has to be manquer à or manquer de. I have been lacking the time to do it, which makes me think manquer de. But I have been missing doing the activity in an emotional sense. I really wish that I could do it just as I really wish that it weren't winter or that I could go back to a certain place.
Can someone help me out and tell me which one to use? Manquer à and de is one of those things I haven't fully mastered when I was A2, I'm afraid.
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