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I do understand the distinction between transitive and intransitive verbs, but for this English speaker there seems to a real difference between "tu as descendu le cadeau" or "j’ai descendu les boîtes" versus "j’ai descendu les escaliers". You don’t "do" anything (like carrying it down or getting it down) to the staircase/ladder/beanstalk! I’m not sure if the French view the two situations identically or whether it’s just idiomatic to descend something with steps or rungs using the transitive form ?
In the sentence : Tu parles à ta soeur. Tu lui parles. - why do we use ‘tu LUI parles’? Should not we agree the pronom with ‘la sœur ‘ (féminin) and say ‘ Tu elle parles’?
Why is it une enfance très heureuse, and not une très heureuse enfance ? I thought heureux always came before the noun it modifies ?
1/ Nous avons froid quand vient l'hiver
2/ Nous avons froid quand l'hiver vient
I wrote des vacances and du travail which was wrong, but I don’t know why. Can you explain since this error isn’t covered in this lesson explanation. I still have trouble with these articles. Thanks so much.
I have probably changed the translation by thinking of “my company” as “my firm” (which is what i say in everyday English in this situation) and using “ma société”, but i’ve always been unsure of une société vs une entreprise vs une compagnie. Can this be clarified for once and for all !!?
I was almost finished the level evaluation test when I inadvertently logged out.
However when I returned clicked on finish test to bring back the work and was told I had 0% correct with nothing answered (not true). Why can't I access the test again or a similar one? I'd like to know the results. Now the system is choosing work for me based on 0% knowledge.
Can this be rectified?
Thanks,
It would be great to add a summary of the types of adjectives that go before - namely beauty, age, goodness, size. This would help to quickly remember this list.
By writing "à moins que tu ne SOIT" instead of " "à moins que tu ne SOIS", Kwizbot deemed it necessary to reduce the measure of MY confidence in this question by 31.3 % percentage points. To recover this "loss" in MY confidence, I had to repeat the question 7 times. Honestly, does this make any sense at all!!!
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