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It would be good for this useful piece of information to have a link to a list of such verbs.
I don't understand what the difference is exactly between nous and on
Do you guys have quizzes for these vocabulary sections?
"Je n'aime pas non plus certains supporters qui peuvent être violents ou même racistes"
Could you use "voire" to replace "ou même" in this sentence? With a comma after "violents" ? I tried and it was marked incorrect.
Thank you!
Why not "de petits morceaux," as there's nothing to designate a specific tomato?
And why not "la carapace" as we're talking about the same animal subject?
Could you add some clarification re: wedding bells, baseball cap, tennis racquet, door knob, golf club, soccer ball, soccer field, sunglasses, Christmas tree, water tank, bus stop, fire truck, etc.
By your lesson, these should all be “à” (what something is designed for), but in fact this whole genre is “de”.
Specifically, why is it “boîte à bijoux” and not “boîte de bijoux” ? Other than convention.
Clearly, these are not just a few exceptions, but an entire class of compound nouns (open form, noun+noun) that is not covered in the lesson.
Thank you.
Votre affirmation selon laquelle «le français se parlait presque exclusivement en Angleterre jusqu'à la fin du XIIIe siècle est ncorrect et trompeur. On pourrait dire que c'était la langue presque exclusive de la cour et de la classe dirigeante des propriétaires terriens puissants. Mais la majorité de la population a continué à parler anglais, qui a subi des changements dramatiques pendant cette période, soit dit en passant. En outre, la langue parlée par la cour était strictement le français normand, puis le français anglo-normand en tant que version insulaire distincte: tous les envahisseurs de 1066 n'étaient pas normands, rappelez-vous. De plus, le français est resté une langue de cour jusqu'à la fin du 14e siècle. Après cela, les connexions avec la Normandie ont diminué et avec elle la nécessité du français pour le roi et sa cour.
My question is similar to Liz. While I resolved the test question "Ce matin, ________ monté au grenier pour ranger un peu." by acknowledging that you dont 'climb the attic' but rather 'climb?? into the attic' and therefore needs 'ETRE', I cannot convince myself re the sentence "I got up on my horse".
If you translated as he 'I mounted my horse" then J'ai monté mon cheval.
But visually and maybe literally "i got up on my horse" is the difference between the dashing hero Lone Ranger style who really mounts and and the bad-guy Jack Palance who slowly 'gets up on his horse' and therefore needs time to "il est monté".
Ok I am being silly. But would you translate the english sentence "i got up on my horse " exactly as you would "I mounted my horse" ? Sad if true because then in french you would lose something in the transaltion.
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