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Why is the first sentence in imparfait - he only went on one business trip?
Why is the second sentence in passe compose - she had tears in her eyes all day long?
quand Samuel était en voyage d'affaires à Bruxelles.
j'ai eu les larmes aux yeux toute la journée !
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How to do Negation with Interrogation of Pronominal verbs?
Like in this sentence: Te laves-tu?
How to make this in negation?
I'm not sure how this is supposed to work. Am I supposed to try and read aloud along with it or just listen to it? And somehow, if I hit the pause button in not exactly the same place, I get 2 voices reading at the same time. And it doesn't rewind? I just have to listen straight through?
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!!!
"Jacques est descendu du haricot magique." was translated to: "Jack got off the magic beanstalk." I answered, "Jack climbed down the beanstalk" and it was marked wrong. Larousse clearly states that "descendre de" (using etre as the auxiliary verb) means "climb or climb down". Hence, my confusion.
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