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I am confused. I know Un is used with masculine nouns and Une is with feminine nouns. But when I looked at the examples of these two:
Un exemple
Une aventure
They both use the English An, but in French, both nouns are feminine, ending in E. So, why use the masculine form of Un with Exemple???
Je veux simplement remercier Aurélie pour vos lessons superbes et commenter que ma mère, Marcelle Eudes a quitté Le Havre en 1936 pour étudier l'anglais à l'université de Southampton et elle aussi a resté en Angleterre (à part les années de la guerre où elle est retournée au Havre jusqu'à la fin du bombardement) pendent toute sa vie jusqu'à 93 ans. Elle aurait eu 100 ans cette année. C'était toujours vers maman que nous avons dirigé nos questions concernant la grammaire soit en français soit en anglais! Merci à vous brillantes enseignantes! Anthony Ford-Jones (Canada)
Can someone please explain the logic behind the difference in adjective agreement w/ nouns after "de" in these two sentences, which both are found in the exercise:
1) "les distances de sécurité"
2) "quelques minutes de gagnées"
Why is "securité" not in agreement w/ "les distances," while "gagnées" is in agreement w/ "quelques minutes?"
We translated "I would like some toast" by " Je voudrais du toast" because "some" implies an undefined quantity. However, your webpage says that the correct answer is: "Je voudrais un toast". To us, this means: "I would like a toast". Could you please let us know if we are wrong?
I looked on Wiktionary and the expression ´a l’air livré means out in the open’. When I typed a l’air libre ‘ on the test, the correct answer was a la belle étoile
Thanks for your helpful and amazing website. I have a question, why would you use « langues de prestige » and not « langues de la prestige »?
I used “de laquelle” in the last sentence instead of “dont”. Is this unacceptable?
Why does sortis have an "s" - I understand that être verbs will agree with subject but this is "on" - I did not think that this was treated at plural "nous"
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