What confuses me here is that this translates in English literally as: "This week, the museum announced that the art was going to be restored from next February." But that's absurd because then we have a nuance of the past (the museum announced; art was going to be restored) as well as future (from next February).

Wouldn't the simple futur proche tense suffice here since we are talking about the future?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Melissa P.A1KwizIQ community member

J'ai rendu visite à ma soeur. visiter is conjugated? I thought it was J'ai rendu visiter à ma soeur.

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Capricia B.A0KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

J’ai un question

This isn’t un question about verbs, mais comment can I continuer apprendre français without feeling bored ou retour à anglais?

I hope this est un/une appropriate question à ask

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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

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Ozan D.A2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

meaning of par où?

what is the meaning of "par où"? is it different when used relative pronouns or noun clause? I can'not undertand it???

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Ron F.C1KwizIQ community member

Could I say at one o/clock “Il arrive d’ici deux heures” to mean he is arriving at 2 o/clock?

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