French language Q&A Forum

I tried translating "You cannot tell anyone." on my own, and I came up with
"Tu ne peux pas dire à personne."

However, when I tried to check it on Google Translate, it changed my sentence to
"Tu ne peux pas le dire à personne."

Is "le" really necessary before "dire"? What is the rule of these kinds of sentences?

I hope you can help me. Thanks!

I just took a test on this subject.  What makes no sense to me is that all the test answers use the word must ( must have been, gone, lost, etc.)  Since one uses the future of avoir or être and the passé comp ending, wouldn't the proper translation be will have been, etc?  When I go to a lesson, not one example sentence uses the word must.  Furthermore, wouldn't common sense tell you that devoir should be used somehow if must is desired? Help-frustrated.

I believe it would be better to replace "behind" with "after" to be consistent with the use of "before" in the following paragraph :

I'm confused about the difference between "les jours derniers" vs. "les derniers jours".

In the lesson, "les jours derniers" is translated as "these last days" while "les derniers jours" is translated as "these past few days." I'm having a hard time seeing the distinction.