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Étranger - Moyen-Orient; Étranger, toujours - à Paris; Bretagne, enfin - (Chez nous)
Brilliant and so true. Bretagne - je l'aime beaucoup !. We have a nephew living there, and we have a friend there who is dedicated to preserving the Breton language in the face of the onslaught from - - - French !
Bonsoir,
I think there is a mistake in the translation of "tu sens ça? I translated it as Do you smell that?, Do you feel that? but had it only partially correct. Your answer also noted Do you taste that? To taste is normally translated as goûter - so why are you using sentir instead? It does not sound right. Please explain. Thanks !
Hi,
"Je ne saurais expliquer ce qui m'arrive aujourd'hui"
2 questions:
Why is there no "pas" - is this a negative sentence?
Why is "arrive" in present tense and not passe compose?
- ce qui me suis arrivé -
In the phrase 'une sensation de liberté telle qu'elle n'en avait jamais ressenti' why is ressenti not feminine ?
(Also, does the 'en' stand for anything grammatical or is it idiomatic?)
Q:''Tom et Paula se sont embrassés devant le miroir.'' can mean:
Both required answers in the multiple choice are:1.Tom and Paula kissed each other in front of the mirror.
2.Tom and Paula kissed themselves in front of the mirror.
The first correct answer is the normal one, which fits the French sentence. The second one is technically correct, but the only google results of this example that I've found were linguistic works discussing how weird it was. I've asked some English native speakers (who are also familiar with French at various levels), and it is really weird. As a C2 French speaker, I also find this weird, I have never encountered the second meaning. Should we really interpret that sentence also as "Tom was kissing his own hand in front of the mirror and Paula was kissing her own hand in front of the mirror"? In an exercise on the reciprocity expressed by the reflexive verbs?
Wasn't the original intention rather to put there both "Tom and Paula kissed each other in front of the mirror." and "Tom and Paula kissed in front of the mirror"? That would illustrate perfectly the issue at hand, that the reflexive pronoun is used in French and not in the English translation.
what are the meaning of jusque-la?
Do I use it in present tense,past tense and future tense ? and does it have two meaning? (until then,So far)
Examples:
1-Mon fils était un brave garçon jusque-là= My son was a good boy until then
2-C'est mon moment préféré jusque-là=it is my favourite moment so far
3-Les reste de cadeaux attendra jusque-la=The rest of the gifts wait until then
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