Affirmative use of prétendre with subjunctive relative clausePensée et Structure, copyright 1969 by John/Jean Darbelnet, a French textbook that has haunted me since 1971, distinguishes between using prétendre in the affirmative with the indicative and with the subjunctive - a distinction blessedly no longer "felt" by the modern Frenchman, or so I am told....
So, per this evidently out-of-date usage:
Il prétend qu'il a tout compris, c'est-a-dire, il affirme que.....
Il prétend qu'on ne fasse rien sans le consulter, c'est-a-dire, il exige que......
The text makes further such distinctions for comprendre, supposer, dire, et il me semble que. This can be found in numbered paragraph 215. My original copy was so marked up, I bought a second copy on Amazon.
I would love input from native French speakers....
Pensée et Structure, copyright 1969 by John/Jean Darbelnet, a French textbook that has haunted me since 1971, distinguishes between using prétendre in the affirmative with the indicative and with the subjunctive - a distinction blessedly no longer "felt" by the modern Frenchman, or so I am told....
So, per this evidently out-of-date usage:
Il prétend qu'il a tout compris, c'est-a-dire, il affirme que.....
Il prétend qu'on ne fasse rien sans le consulter, c'est-a-dire, il exige que......
The text makes further such distinctions for comprendre, supposer, dire, et il me semble que. This can be found in numbered paragraph 215. My original copy was so marked up, I bought a second copy on Amazon.
I would love input from native French speakers....
What is the difference between mal and blesse?
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.
correct answer is:
“Nous commencerions à cinq heures si nos patrons nous laissait faire”.
Pourquoi pas: “si nos patrons nous laissait LE faire”.?
Why is alors que wrong rather than pendant que. Is alors que only used for opposition?
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.
why not Olivier arrive á la piscine
A male sheep is called a ram in English and I thought a male sheep in French was a bélier? Is it that people in France call male sheep "mouton"?
Thanks for clearing this up because I was a little confused...
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