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This is a very academic point. The translation for "Ils redoutent qu'elle ne revienne" is given as "They dread she might come back". In French, they dread that she will return. In the given English translation, even the possibility that she will come back is a cause for dread. I know that, in common speech, the distinction might never be made, but shouldn't the equivalent sentences be as follows?
"Ils redoutent qu'elle ne revienne." = "They dread she will come back."
"Ils redoutent qu'elle ne puisse revenir." = "They dread she might come back."
Why is "I really feel like an ice cream !" "J'ai vraiment envie d'une glace !" in the past tense? Isn't the statement in the present tense as it is happening now?
so i wrote quatre heures de l'apres midi and it marked wrong, told it shoulb be seize heures. when i used 24 hour clock was told it only for railway etc timetables, please what is right?
For the example elle y repond, does this mean it's wrong to say elle le repond? Or elle la repond?
Thanks in advance.
Why "La vie est interessante"
why vie doesn't become vi'
If you translate 'and suddenly, I'd realised that I could not live without you' as 'et soudain, je m'étais rendu compte que je ne pouvais pas vivre sans toi', the past participle is corrected to 'rendue' (because it's a female speaker). But my understand was that 'compte' is the direct object in this phrase and 'me' the indirect, and that therefore the past participle is invariable.
In the first example, "se demander" does not agree in number or gender because the reflexive pronoun "se" is an indirect object. Why doesn't that same rule apply to "se sentir" (I feel)? Thanks.
In the translation of the sentence : The invigorating wind lasher her face , why is lui used : le vent revigorant lui fouettait le visage ??
"Cette maison est bien."
Am I correct in thinking that, in this case, "bien" is describing the house and is therefore an adjective?
If this is true, then "bien" can be an adjective as well as an adverb.
Please could you tell how to know when to use "bien" or "bon" as an adjective.
In other words, why did the question not read "Cette maison est bonne" ?
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