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Is "demeurer" intransitive with "avoir"? Is it always followed by an adjective with "être"?It seems like it takes an indirect object with avoir, since it is followed by a preposition in both examples (which seems backwards from every other French verb I have seen that has dual meanings when both auxiliary verbs are used in Le Passé Composé). But the lesson does not describe it as intransitive with avoir, which makes me think that there may be exceptions that cause it to not be described that way. And there are not enough examples for me to get a good feeling about how it works. With être, it doesn't seem to take a direct object in the usual sense, but it seems nevertheless to need something to act on. It is followed by an adjective and then a prepositional clause in both the examples.

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Quelle est la difference entre dans, en et pandent?

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when is les used and when is leur used

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adjectives before a noun or after noun

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Is the pronoun always masculine when referring to previously established complete ideas?

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Noun inside the negation?In one of the questions on an exam, the correct answer was "Il ne voit Julie nulle part". Why is Julie included in between "ne" and "nulle part" while a sentence like "Il ne voit pas Julie" has Julie outside of the negation?

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what other verbs have the prep. already built in, eg attendre, regarder

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Je ne comprends pas pourquoi on utilise eu

Il aura eu froid cet hiver-là. He will have been cold that winter. Pourquoi on utilise “eu”, Est ce qu’on peut utiliser “ete” C’est a dire, il aura ete froid cet hiver -la

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Le impérfait is also used to express a habit like "avoir l'habitude de"Ils avaient l'habitude de se coucher avant 10 heures / Ils se couchaient avant 10 heures; Do both can be used to mean "used to go to bed before 10"?

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How to tell the time in FrenchWhere it says treize heures moins cinq, just above Jargon Busters, should that translate as 2:55 rather than 0:55?

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