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As « après-midi » can be either masculine or feminine, both « cet après-midi » and « cette après-midi » should be considered as correct answers in this exercise, but are not.
The Académie-Française notes preference for use of the masculine, but still accepts both as correct. It would be reasonable to advise « cet après-midi » as the best choice, with « cette après-midi » as an acceptable alternative
https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9A2293
It strikes me that the follow through implied in passé composé for devoir (had to, and did it) is similar to vouloir (wanted to, and did or tried to do it). Does that sound right?
Bonjour. Why is it "début septembre" and not "au début de septembre"?
Dans cette phrase une prononciation d'un mot recoudre [ʀ(ə)kudʀ] est [ vɔ kudʀ]
Corrigez-la
For the translation of 'thin, clean' does it matter which order the adjectives appear in French ?
Is s'en aller used in the negative form? If so, what is the construction?
The answer to #7 on the calendar is la neige but I answered une boule à neige (a snow globe) because that's what it looks like to me.
Why is personne considered a plural noun? I thought it needed an “s” to be plural.
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