Hi. When practising the use of 'que', one of your examples runs 'Les fleurs que Paul sent.' and the translation is The flowers that/which Paul smells. As the present tense in English denotes habitual or regular doings, the present tense here implies that Paul smells them every day or often, which sounds a bit odd. I think the progressive form' is smelling' would give the correct meaning of ' Paul sent'.

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Pekka Järvilehto

Hki.

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Louis T.A1Kwiziq community member

Un question

If "ai" is pronounced as "e" what about "eu" "au" "aux" "œ"... ??

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Estefania L.A2Kwiziq community member

What is the order when you use nous/vous/me/te as the direct and the indirect pronoun?

I.e. something like "They sent us to you" or "He sent you to me"

What is the correct order, or is there no way to correctly order the pronouns in such a case?

"ils nous vous envient" vs "ils vous nous envient"

"ils me t'envie" vs "ils te m'envie"

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Melody S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

bien que in Larousse vs. Collins

My question is about bien que. Sorry if this the wrong place to bring it up, but Jameson brought it up.

I had thought that bien que was a trigger for the subjonctive.

I went to Larousse to look at bien que:

https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais-anglais/bien/9074

bien que

locution conjonctive

despite the fact that, although, though

bien que malade, il a tenu à y aller although he was ill, he insisted on going

NOT the subjonctive

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/french-english/bien-que

bien que CONJONCTION

although

Il fait assez chaud bien qu’il n’y ait pas de soleil. It’s quite warm although there’s no sun. subjonctive

So, please can someone explain this to me?

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Gary T.B2Kwiziq community member

C'est dommage

Ils me rappellent de Milli Vanilli. Pourquoi est-ce que nous perdons notre temps en discutant ces individus stupides? Perdonnez-moi; je suis un veillard qui ne possede rien intérêt en tels idiots!

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Wedam A.A2Kwiziq community member

Ce que (vs ce qui) = what, which (relative pronouns)

Why can't you say

Dis-moi quetu fais le weekend.

Dis-moi ce que tu fais le weekend.

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D. A.C1Kwiziq community member

Sorry for previous two questions: keyboard problems! How would you say “Give me some” when some refers to people (or dogs etc)?

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