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I thought that you use "qui" if it's directly before a verb, e.g. ce qui fait peur and "que" the rest of the time, e.g. ce que je veux. So why is it ce qui lui manque.
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The correct "City of Lights" translation for Paris in French is La Ville Lumière not La Cité des Lumières! You should fix this.
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ville_Lumi%C3%A8re
I understand why “Quel est le meilleur aspirateur? “ uses meilleur but would the answer to that question in a shop be “Cet aspirateur est mieux que ceux-là.”, or Cet aspirateur est meilleur que ceux. Is a general statement (using mieux) able to be used for comparing two specific objects the speakers are pointing to, trying on, testing out, deciding between?
In the negative half of the lesson, the adjective plus mauvais seems to be used for similarly structured sentences. Mon accent est plus mauvais que le tien. and Ses résultats sont plus mauvais que l'année dernière.
Pourquoi elle trouve Andrew charmant ? Pourquoi pas elle trouve qu'Andrew est charmant ?
I don't understand the difference. What is wrong with saying Nous and not On?
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Hi, I'm wondering why the "de" is included in this line?
for translating the phrase, "who had been waiting for the snow...the correct answer used the imparfait. Wouldn't that be translated as was waiting? (Rather than had been waiting)
Can you say "après avoir terminé son diplôme"?
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