French language Q&A Forum

In the explannation above, it says:

"To express lacking [something], you will use manquer de or d' + [thing].

You do not need to use the partitive articles (du, de l', de la, des) here, just as you wouldn't say I lack thesugar but simply I lack sugar:"

It's a bit confusing because then all the examples use "de". You really have to your know your grammatical terms! I wonder if it would be clearer to say:

"You do not need to use the definite articles (le, l', la, les) here".

Just a thought.

Quand je serai grand, puis-je être aussi cool que ces enfants?

<< Mais en 1969, André Malraux le classera enfin au titre des monuments historiques >>

 I'm interested in the use of the future tense for classer here.  I can't find any rule about it anywhere.

Clearly this event took place in the past. Is this a mistake ? Shouldn't this have been in the passé simple to give it a literary/formal feeling ?  i.e. classa

<< Mais en 1969, André Malraux le classa enfin au titre des monuments historiques >>

Any thoughts welcome.  Thanks,  Paul.

Hello,

I was wondering if I can post my translation of the reading exercise of Cher journal for my answers here to see how I did or is there a page where it shows it correctly of the translation?

Thanks for your help

Nicole

https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/my-languages/french/tests/3091633

Mon rêve pour cette année (Le Conditionnel)

- the sentence to be translated is "the first flight that appeals to us!" 

- I put in "le premier vol qui nous plairions!", but the answer is marked incorrect, and the one given is "le premier vol qui nous plairait!" 

- The linked lesson is "Lesson: Conjugate regular verbs in Le Conditionnel Présent (conditional mood)" 

So I'm not sure what I've done wrong here? Thanks!