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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.
One of the questions asks how to translate: "We go to the park on Sundays." When I see the s on the end of Sundays I translate that as a habitual thing this person does every Sunday, a general activity not specific to just this Sunday. I thus translated the sentence without an article in front of dimanche, to show that this isn't in a specific context, the speaker was speaking to a habit. The quiz stated that I should have put an article in front of dimanche. I have re-read the lesson, but still don't understand why I would translate it differently. Please help :).
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 !
Expressing cause with "Pour (+être) allé" = For going/having gone in French
I am unsure why «pour avoir (past participle)» is sub-headed 'simple expression' and «pour être (past participle)» is sub-headed "complex expression". Is it because the latter lesson also includes reflexives, or am I missing some other complexity with «être»? The lessons and phrases seem otherwise essentially identical, using avoir or être as required by the verb in infinitif passé form.
I don't think there's any way one could know them unless they had already been taught to the learner. I found it a bit unfair, but I suppose the grading is subjective and as long as one learns something, who cares.
While savoir is present and dire is Passé Composé. I do not understand the patternNous le savons depuis que vous nous l'avez dit.We've known [it] since you told us.
Bonjour. Comment corrigez-vous les fautes d’orthographe dans la dictée ? On perd un point avec chaque faute ? On commence avec 65 points ? Si c’est le cas, pourquoi ? C’est le nombre de mots ?
Merci de votre explication.
My french teacher once told me that J'adore was too strong. That you would never say it to someone you know in a romantic way. She said it was so strong in fact that it was kind of stalkery. She said it should be used for inanimate objects or like a celebrity that you're a fan of. Is she correct?
Hi, what is the point of inverting verbs? Does it change the mood of the question? All I got from this lesson was "it sounds better".
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