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The lesson states, "Just as in English, you can state something with a querying tone..." but none of the above examples sound like questions to me. They all sound like flat statements. The voice does not rise at the ends of these questions like it would in English. Is a "querying tone" different in French?
At this link, https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/revision/glossary/verb-tense-mood/the-french-past-conditional-le-conditionnel-passe the two examples near the top of the page seem to be of the conditionnel présent instead of the conditionnel passé. Am I missing something?
Will you please explain the meaning of pouvoir in imparfait.
I Can not completely understand its meaning?
Is this using the passive voice or is 'assis' an adjective?
This was the question:
"Tu as les billets ? Oui, je les ai tous" means:From a drop-down multiple choice, I answered that it meant "I have everything" but I wasn't sure that was correct because of the "les"
The correct answer was, "I have all of them," but couldn't that be written as, "J'en ai tous?" That's where I got confused.
Can you say that hamburger was “grand” instead of “gros ? What is the difference between these 2 adjectives?
In this example can’t the answer be as-
‘Oui,mais lequel est ton préféré?’
How to judge whether the answer of lesquelles or lequel should be singular or plural ?
Can someone explain why the first verb in the extract is in the perfect, while the second (and subsequent) are in the imperfect? They all seem to be describing the continuing circumstances, which calls for the imperfect as I read this: Expressing opinions and describing with the imperfect tense in French (L'Imparfait)
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