Exceptions to merci de + infinitive as "please .... " constructionSomeone presented the example, "merci de m'aimer" which I believe means, "please love me" rather than "thanks for loving me" and directed them to this lesson. However, "merci de m'avoir aimé" doesn't, in my mind, capture the sense of "thanks for loving me" as an ongoing action/effect. After digging further, I found some texts such as, "merci de m'aimer autant" and "merci de m'aimer" on reverso. I'd like to test my instinct and the found examples. Is this an exception where the construction will retain the sense of thanks rather than a polite request, due to context, or are these examples incorrect?
Tangential follow up question: I understand "du cadeau" will be interpreted sarcastically, but is this only for physical gifts? For example, I have found a bit of text with "merci du cadeau de ta présence". Does the modification into a more conceptual gift change meaning, or is this simply incorrect, wanting instead, "merci pour le cadeau de..."?
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How can we say in French? Let's go boys, we are late.
I believe the je form of the conditional of préférer is je préférerais, not je préfèrerais as in the text. Am I correct ?
Qu’est-ce-que c’est que la voiture dans la rue?
It may be useful to link lessons for 'aucun(e)', the opposite of chacun(e).
Someone presented the example, "merci de m'aimer" which I believe means, "please love me" rather than "thanks for loving me" and directed them to this lesson. However, "merci de m'avoir aimé" doesn't, in my mind, capture the sense of "thanks for loving me" as an ongoing action/effect. After digging further, I found some texts such as, "merci de m'aimer autant" and "merci de m'aimer" on reverso. I'd like to test my instinct and the found examples. Is this an exception where the construction will retain the sense of thanks rather than a polite request, due to context, or are these examples incorrect?
Tangential follow up question: I understand "du cadeau" will be interpreted sarcastically, but is this only for physical gifts? For example, I have found a bit of text with "merci du cadeau de ta présence". Does the modification into a more conceptual gift change meaning, or is this simply incorrect, wanting instead, "merci pour le cadeau de..."?
Merci de m'éclairer!
Why we say au tavail not à travail ??
If faire du cheval means "I'm horseback riding", who would one say "I am taking horseback riding lessons"?
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Some of these sentences seem to have accordance, like the final "s" added to the end of apporter in "Il les leur a apportés"
How do you decide which of the object pronouns the verb is supposed to be in accordance with?
OK, here goes my attempt at a literal breakdown of this idiomatic turn of phrase. "The menu is going to put you in full view of all there is." So, what exactly does "en" mean or refer to in this sentence? If the contraction "en" were not used, how would the sentence appear?: "Mon menu va vous mettre plein la vue de ...(quoi)"?
Hi, so i'm reading exercises du style and there´s the following phrase: l'autobus est arrivé. Alors j'ai monté dedans. Wouldn't the être variant be appropriate here?
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