Slight clarificationOkay, so, if I were to say “nous n’avons que regardé un film that would be “we only watched a film” perhaps with the subtext: “and didn’t discuss it, or do anything else with/regarding it?” (I understand this may sound weird if you’re not a film studies major, but I am.) And/or could it be used in response to “you’ve been hanging out with _______??? What have you been doing?!?” as in: “chill, we only watched a movie” in the sense of “we just watched a movie together, that’s all.”
The above, as compared to the corresponding given example, where “nous n’avons regardé qu’un film” means “we only watched a film” with subtext “just the one, only one,” so more numerical than “simply”?
I’m just sort of asking because “that’s all we did!” seems a bit... vague or something? Like differentiating between examples feels a lot like splitting hairs the way it’s described in the lesson? Could just be me, though.
Notice that to refer to a place previously mentioned in French, you use the pronoun y ('there').I am struggling with this. It seems to confirm the meaning I learned many years ago but then it all gets contradicted when we get venir de... where de itself is taking on a different meaning and is being used as a conjunction instead of an article. Maybe we need to forget the translation as "there" and formulate the rule as en replaces de and y replaces à.. and place is irrelevant?
I live in New Brunswick, Canada, and in French we are called Nouveau-Brunswick. Is that just because Canada is more French than the US? Just curious.
Quel est le temps pour le verbe choisir dans cette question ? Je pense qu'il faut passe composé, parce que on utilise avoir, mais le participe passé de choisir est choisi. Merci!
Okay, so, if I were to say “nous n’avons que regardé un film that would be “we only watched a film” perhaps with the subtext: “and didn’t discuss it, or do anything else with/regarding it?” (I understand this may sound weird if you’re not a film studies major, but I am.) And/or could it be used in response to “you’ve been hanging out with _______??? What have you been doing?!?” as in: “chill, we only watched a movie” in the sense of “we just watched a movie together, that’s all.”
The above, as compared to the corresponding given example, where “nous n’avons regardé qu’un film” means “we only watched a film” with subtext “just the one, only one,” so more numerical than “simply”?
I’m just sort of asking because “that’s all we did!” seems a bit... vague or something? Like differentiating between examples feels a lot like splitting hairs the way it’s described in the lesson? Could just be me, though.
When to use devoir in the imparfait or the passé composé is very difficult (at least for me). The related lesson in this exercise advises that the imparfait for devoir is used for “supposed to”, and the passé composé is used for “had to” or “must have”. So using that logic, the sentence : “I must have been 3 or 4” should have been translated as “J’ai dû avoir trois ou quatre ans”, but that seems to be incorrect.
Maybe more clarification is needed on that lesson with more examples, because this answer seems to be a contradiction to the lesson .
For "Je les connaissais par coeur" the reason for the imparfait was a habitual activity, but I have trouble with seeing that as a habit. To me that is done and that's it. I used passé comp....can you help me understand what they mean by a habit in this case.
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