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ANDREW G.A2KwizIQ community member

Can Le or la be left out as direct object pronounsI am subscribed to your newsletter/blog. I truly enjoy it.I do have one question, however.In studying Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns I recently came across the sentence below.

"I gave it to him yesterday"

I have seen it translated into French as both:

1)"Je le lui ai donné hier." and 2) "Je lui ai donné hier."

Duolingo teaches the first translation above and it is also what is seen on some reliable French websites such as Lawless French. However I have also seen it translated as in number 2 and translators in particular seem to leave out the "le."

Is this just a quirk of the translators, is it a difference between written and spoken French, or is it acceptable to leave out the "le" in either spoken or written French? Any help would be appreciated.Andrew K. Greenfield, MD

Asked 5 years ago

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engenious e.C1KwizIQ community member

ClarityI think that your examples might be clearer if you divided them into three parts groups than two: 1.Supplemental Group Do you have /another/some other/ idea(s) (as well)? 2.Different Group I would like to try /a different/some other/ jumper(s) (in stead). 3.Desciptive He speaks about France and /about other/ countries. Greg.

Asked 8 years ago

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Jimmy J.A1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

, I think I might be starting to understand. Thank you for the repetition.

Asked 9 years ago

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Emily H.A2KwizIQ community member

"rentrerons à la maison"

Why can't we say retournerons chez nous?

Asked 3 years ago

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Martin M.A0KwizIQ community member

Bon Jour !! I saw this sentence in your examples: Alice s'est maquillée. (Alice put her make-up on.) I don' t see the verb mettre (to put) ??

Asked 8 years ago

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Paul F.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

C'est encore/toujours un problème pour moi

"Il devrait encore être sous garantie." "Il devrait toujours être sous garantie." This exercise uses "encore" exclusively here, but I was wondering if this was an example of a case where "encore" and "toujours" could be used interchangeably to mean "still"? It is a hard concept to grasp because of the other meanings of these 2 words, and one I just can't seem to get right. For example, could "Il devrait encore être sous garantie" have 2 possible meanings depending on context i.e. "It should (still or again) be under warranty", and could "Il devrait toujours être sous garantie" also have 2 possible meanings i.e. "It should (still or always) be under warranty" ?

Asked 5 years ago

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Vitor F.A2KwizIQ community member

Why "Il écrit à sa tante" becomes "Il lui écrit"?

During the lesson it is explained to use lui/leur when you have the "à" before the object and to use la/le/les when there is a possessive pronoun before, for example:

"Il va appeler ses parents" --> "Il va les appeler"

So why using lui in this case?

Asked 6 years ago

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Stewart H.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Regarding the translation of 'the weather was beautiful the whole time!'

Regarding the translation of 'the weather was beautiful the whole time!'

the answer is given as:

il a fait beau tout le temps !

BUT an alternative answer is also given:

"il a fait un temps magnifique tout le temps !"

This seems to conflict with the lesson ‘Talking about the weather with il fait + [adjective]’ which states that: -