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Hi, should hacher be spelt as hâcher? I did this exercise - https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/my-languages/french/tests/results/11294497/system - and got it wrong.
One of the translations in the quiz was 'Everybody wants to do their best'. This may be in common usage now but correctly, I think, it should be 'his/her' best. Here 'everybody' is singular hence the singular verb 'wants', so the pronoun needs to correspond to the noun as well as the verb.
Il devait me rappeler, mais il a oublié ! He was supposed to call me back, but he forgot!
Now how would you say.. he was supposed to remind me?
Pourquoi est-ce que la ponctuation ne fait-elle pas partie de la dictée?
Why is this text written mostly in present tense but translated in past tense? How can we know when it's appropriate to use this technique to make our own storytelling easier?
How do you remember whether to use de or à after a verb.
Hi,
I did yesterday's 'fill-in-the-blanks' exercise entitled, 'Un projet de voyage en famille' which consists of putting verbs au futur simple.
Kwiziq dinged me for writing, "Les filles se bronzeront à la plage pendant que je nagerai." Kwiziq wanted, "Les filles bronzeront à la plage ..." ; no 'se'.
When l checked dictionaries, l found that some included 'se bronzer' and some did not. Which is interesting. And, two key French dictionaries validated 'se bronzer' as being a valid option for 'to tan' : Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (online) and Larousse, https://www.larousse.fr
I wonder, might some consideration be given to adding 'se bronzer' to Kwiziq's database? Thanks.
The following -ETER and -ELER verbs behave differently: they always and ONLY take the accent è on the first -e (-eter/-eler):
-ELER: agneler - celer - receler - ciseler - démanteler - écarteler - s'encasteler - geler (and derivatives: dégeler, congeler, surgeler) - marteler - modeler - peler
-ETER: acheter (and derivatives:racheter) - bégueter - corseter - crocheter - fileter - fureter - haleter
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