Imparfait on Saturday, but Passé Composé on Sunday?Ok, Team Kwiziq. Au secours! À l'aide!
"Samedi dernier, il y avait du brouillard et il faisait froid et humide."
- We're describing the weather, setting up the condition. Ergo: l'imparfait seems the perfect tense here.
"Dimanche, il a fait moins froid mais il a plu toute la journée."
- In context, we're implying the day following "samedi dernier," still describing the weather, setting up the condition, so why do we jump to the passé composé? It makes sense to me to use it the sentence "Mon frère et moi sommes sortis dans le jardin pour ramasser des escargots," as it happened on that particular Sunday, doesn't feel habitual, doesn't feel like it was on ongoing event...
Nonetheless why not "Dimanche, il faisait moins froid mais il pleuvait toute la journée." Or even better, "Dimanche, il faisait moins froid mais il a plu toute la journée." ???
I don't understand the tense of this verb "venus" used in this sentence
Un festival de courts métrages venus des quatre coins de la planète.
A festival of short films came from 4 corners of the planet.
Hi, Ive just done the question 'What does Je lui parle mean? to which I answered I am speaking to him, and I am speaking to her (I ticked both boxes.) My answer was marked nearly right but my understanding is that lui can refer to both him or her. Can you explain why it was marked this way please.
Are there any specifications in futur proche. For example, in passé compose when conjugated with être, if the sujet is feminin then we have to add an “e” to the passé form of the verb
For example if you were to say 'I like carrots', can't you say j'aime des carottes as well as j'aime les carottes ?
Or do they mean different things?
Why is the answer not: Georges cherche pour son neuf stylo?
There is no suggestion that the new pen has been used before. If it had, it would be (masc/sing) nouveau - the answer given as correct.
Can you please explain why the answer is nouveau.
In the example when it says il pense à elle and it means he’s thinking of her. But in another example it says je parle de lui which means I speak of him. So de and à both mean of in these examples so I will as wondering when I would use à and when I would use de.
Ok, Team Kwiziq. Au secours! À l'aide!
"Samedi dernier, il y avait du brouillard et il faisait froid et humide."
- We're describing the weather, setting up the condition. Ergo: l'imparfait seems the perfect tense here.
"Dimanche, il a fait moins froid mais il a plu toute la journée."
- In context, we're implying the day following "samedi dernier," still describing the weather, setting up the condition, so why do we jump to the passé composé? It makes sense to me to use it the sentence "Mon frère et moi sommes sortis dans le jardin pour ramasser des escargots," as it happened on that particular Sunday, doesn't feel habitual, doesn't feel like it was on ongoing event...
Nonetheless why not "Dimanche, il faisait moins froid mais il pleuvait toute la journée." Or even better, "Dimanche, il faisait moins froid mais il a plu toute la journée." ???
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