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Please post vocabulary for basic maths here. It only says "manger" in the vocab when the topic is basic maths.
I have not seen any examples or reference to using the phrase when the subject is/are thing/s rather than people. I may be missing something very basic here, but can the phrase be used with things, or only when the pronouns represent people? If it can be used, is it actually used?
I wrote 'les chauves-souris' . Your text was 'les chauve-souris'. After completion of the dictee, I checked dictionaries which add s to chauve in the plural form. ??
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.
like in the subject
An alternative given for "You finally got up" was "Tu es enfin levé". I thought it would be "tu t'es enfin levé" (as the reflexive verbe is "se lever"). Just wondering if this was a typo, or am I missing something? Thanks.
Bonjour Madame,
In the sentence given in the lesson as
"Ta téle est bien mais la mienne est mieux"
In this sentence although the comparative form of 'bien' has been used but then also ' que' has not been used;though here 'mieux' is I think has been used as an adjective.
Mam,Pls guide the reason behind not writing 'que'
Thanks
I don't see in the lesson where it explains when to use the subjunctive conjugation for commands versus standard imperatif. Thanks!
In the text it says:
que consommait la population pauvre de Bretagne
The translation says:
that Brittany's poor population used to eat.The French seems to say:
that was eaten the poor population of Brittany
If the English translation is right, then the population is the subject in which case the verb subject order should be different, or, the French actually says "that was eaten by the poor population of Brittany" and so it should say
que consommait par la population pauvre ...
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