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The question asked to clarify if son was masculin or feminin reflecting "Le professeur." The answer was "cannot say" but why isn't it masculin? Can't professeur be feminin by adding an "e" at the end?
Since the Czech Republic changed their name to Czechia, has the name in French changed? If so what is it? Has the gender changed?
"Note also that you use qu'est-ce que if it appears at the start but quoi at the end."
Nous aurions dû partir plus tôt.
This phrase came up in a test where I had to fill in the “should have” segment with “partir” ...should have left.
I hesitated because I was thinking “partir is a House/être verb.
Please instruct why être verb rules don’t apply in the case.
Sorry for a rather niche question, it may be a situation that doesn’t often arise, but I’m wondering where the COD and COI pronouns go in a sentence with subject-verb inversion? (I found a reference to y and en)
Merci d'avance :)
I have checked with 3 different dictionaries i.e. Le Robert de Poche, Harrap’s Shorter French and English dictionary and Wordreference online. Each one defines ski boot as “après-ski” as opposed to “botte de neige” .
Which is the correct response?
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