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Krenar K.A0Kwiziq community member

How do you conjugate the verb "être" in the Passé Composé (conversational past)?

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Susan S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Use of subjunctive after après que?

Hi, nice passage. I thought that the indicative tense is used after "après que" while the subjection with the expletive "ne" is used after "avant que." Could you please clarify as the past subjunctive is used after "après que" in the text. Merci !

Asked 6 years ago

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Lorie R.C1Kwiziq community member

"il y en a ou ca va donner des aromes de fumier"

Greetings! The translation of "des aromes de fumier" above says "smoky aromas," but I'm seeing in the dictionary that the meaning of "fumier" is "manure." Is the translation above mistaken?

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Tony H.A1Kwiziq community member

For me:- Too fast. Can pause but not go back. Better if story scrolled while audio control remained static. Great concept. :-)

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S. P.A2Kwiziq community member

touts incorrect spelling

In on of the A2 the lesson there is a spelling ... touts... an incorrect answer, but bad spellers like me are likely to remember this. Please could yo not use incorrect spellings, its really confusing.

Thanks

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Charles T.C1Kwiziq community member

Should it not be "le virage dernier" rather than "le dernier virage"?

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Keith S.C1Kwiziq community member

Past conditional

Why is it 'Elle aurait eu froid sans son manteau' and not 'aurait été froid'?

Thank you.

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Martin R.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Just when I thought I had it!

I’ve been looking for the main difference with avoir besoin de and avoir envie de and thought I got it when you say that avoir envie de is to feel/need to DO SOMETHING!

But then the first question to answer is J’ai envie d’une nouvelle voiture and that blew it out the water.

I am confused again! Why use one over the other in this simple context?

Thank you

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Jason R.B2Kwiziq community member

Incorrect translation

"They will have been happy together" doesn't make any sense in English. It is mixing future and past with no mood context. It implies that you looked in the future and could see that they had been happy in the past (which is your future). If this is a tense that cannot be translated, then it should be translated directly as a lesson.

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Andrea N.B2Kwiziq community member

Position of 'dernier'Dimanche dernier but le dernier mois, or dernière fois . Why does the position of 'dernier' precede or follow the noun? Thanks in advance.

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