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The group à + [people] becomes simply their matching indirect pronoun, as follows:
Don’t certain verbs require a tonic (stress) pronoun after à, rather than the indirect object pronoun before the verb ?
For example - "Je pense à vous" "Tu dois faire attention à lui"
For one of the kwiz questions it asked what the translation of "we don't see anything" is. I answered "Nous ne voyons rien" but the correct answer is "Nous ne voyons personne". Was my answer wrong? I thought the second sentence would mean "we don't see anyone"
Honestly instead of making like 5-6 different articles about all the prepositions for to/from different places, why wouldn't you make a single article with a chart summarizing all of them?
It's a confusing topic, and it's expressed horrendously here on this website in an unnecessarily convoluted manner.
There's a lesson saying that we use le/la/les with general things. However, in a writing practise, the sentence "when it's hot, I prefer to eat mixed salads" is translated as "quand il fait chaud, je prefere manger des salades composees", why do we use "des" (meaning some) here instead of "les" (meaning salads in general)?
The pronunciation I'm hearing in the audio sounds like ". . . ce que t'way le voir" for " . . . ce que tu ailles le voir."
Is this actual French pronunciation or a bad recording?
Note that you use à when describing going to or being in a city. And you use de to indicate being, coming or returning from a city.
Does this mean that de can also be used to describe being IN a city?
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