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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.
Do you guys have quizzes for these vocabulary sections?
One of your test has this question "Tu ________ une surprise à ta mère." and the answer is Tu fais une surprise à ta mère., which means "You're giving a surprise to your mother." How come its fais when it says to give? which is supposed to be donner. Hoping for a response thanks
I still can't wrap my head around when you use the subjonctif passé instead of the subjonctif présent. Can someone please give me a couple more examples?
Merci :)
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.
The above sentence was part of a quiz. Does sur not take a modifier? Shouldn't it be sur l'internet?
It would be helpful to include an example iin the lesson for expressing the date with days of the week included. For example how to say Thursday the 12th of March.
le jeudi 12 mars
In the following question I am marked wrong for se reposent-t-ils... With the answer given as se reposent-ils
Think I can see the answer that the T is already there and just needs pronouncing.. is there any indication in written french when a silent T should be pronounced?
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