Point of interest - Université Harvard or 'de Harvard' or 'd'Harvard' or some/all of the preceding ?The speaker clearly says "Université d'Harvard" but is this technically correct ? How would we know ?
Wikipedia refers to Université Harvard, and uses 'de Harvard' for lists of 'presidents of Harvard' etc.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_Harvard
Bab.la also shows 'de Harvard' for diplomas '(from )Harvard' etc and in a number of examples referring to Harvard University uses "Université de Harvard". https://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-french/harvard
Examples of all 3 are found on this page from linguee https://www.linguee.com/english-french/translation/harvard+university.html
The university is named after (Rev) John Harvard, so my first thought was that it would follow the same format as for instance "Institut Pasteur" and should just be Université Harvard, or at least be treated as h aspiré and be 'de Harvard'. Last on my list would have been d'Harvard. However it appears all are acceptable ?
The quiz question was Lucas a monté la nouvelle armoire de sa sœur
How is this different from Lucas a monté les escaliers?
In otherwords, why is "Lucas climbed on top of his sister's new wardrobe" incorrect?
Thank you
The sentence to be translated:
And then, after taking a deep breath,
The correct response given is:
Et là, après avoir respiré un grand coup
Why is là used? I wanted to use puis but it wasn’t given as an option.
Would puis work?
This was supposed to have been corrected ONE YEAR AGO, but the error still persists!
Thought “dans” was used when it is an event in the future???? Am I wrong to assume this???
The speaker clearly says "Université d'Harvard" but is this technically correct ? How would we know ?
Wikipedia refers to Université Harvard, and uses 'de Harvard' for lists of 'presidents of Harvard' etc.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_Harvard
Bab.la also shows 'de Harvard' for diplomas '(from )Harvard' etc and in a number of examples referring to Harvard University uses "Université de Harvard". https://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-french/harvard
Examples of all 3 are found on this page from linguee https://www.linguee.com/english-french/translation/harvard+university.html
The university is named after (Rev) John Harvard, so my first thought was that it would follow the same format as for instance "Institut Pasteur" and should just be Université Harvard, or at least be treated as h aspiré and be 'de Harvard'. Last on my list would have been d'Harvard. However it appears all are acceptable ?
Can "en hiver" also be translated as "during the winter"/"in wintertime" or would I have to say "pendant l'hiver" or something else? The translation "in winter" doesn't seem like common phrasing it seems almost like the beginning of a scientific statement and I'm bound to over-translate it.
In the third sentence, we are given the hint to use "on", but then marked wrong when we used it instead of "nous."
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