Que or lequel?Hi,
I have a question regarding "lequel"...
I still dont get when to use "que" and "lequel".....
There is one sentence i found from online news article and the use of "lequel" in it confuses me..
Le racisme, c'est l'idée selon laquelle l'espèce humaine serait composée de plusieurs races différentes.
En savoir plus : https://www.1jour1actu.com/info-animee/cest-quoi-le-racisme
It is literally the first sentence of the article and so nothing has been mentioned before that sentence. Regardless the "laquelle" has been used along with "selon", preposition. Also, when I translate it based on a dictionary, it means "according to which". It sounds so weird if i apply it onto the whole sentence.
So, my questions are.......
1. is it necessary to use "selon laquelle or can I simply use "que" instead? (Like "c'est l'idée QUE l'espèce humaine serait....")
2. And just like "dans lequel" which can simply translate as "where(=où)", does "selon lequel" also mean something simple other than its dictionary meaning, "according to which"?
I would appreciate for any reply!
Similar to the question previously from Frank on 'choose a/my career' (and as G noted in his response), the English to be translated is "I found teachers fascinating" but only 'mes professeurs' is accepted. Either the English should be changed to 'my teachers' or "les professeurs" added to the accepted translation.
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In this lesson, Expressing Numbers from 70 to 999, the paragraph which begins "Note: Before the 1990 Spelling Reform, numbers including et as well as numbers higher than 100 didn’t include the hyphen...", has two examples, "deux cent" and "deux-cent", neither of which have "cent" written as "cents". They should have an "s" at the end shouldn't they, since they are not followed by another number?
Hi,
I have a question regarding "lequel"...
I still dont get when to use "que" and "lequel".....
There is one sentence i found from online news article and the use of "lequel" in it confuses me..
Le racisme, c'est l'idée selon laquelle l'espèce humaine serait composée de plusieurs races différentes.
En savoir plus : https://www.1jour1actu.com/info-animee/cest-quoi-le-racisme
It is literally the first sentence of the article and so nothing has been mentioned before that sentence. Regardless the "laquelle" has been used along with "selon", preposition. Also, when I translate it based on a dictionary, it means "according to which". It sounds so weird if i apply it onto the whole sentence.
So, my questions are.......
1. is it necessary to use "selon laquelle or can I simply use "que" instead? (Like "c'est l'idée QUE l'espèce humaine serait....")
2. And just like "dans lequel" which can simply translate as "where(=où)", does "selon lequel" also mean something simple other than its dictionary meaning, "according to which"?
I would appreciate for any reply!
“Are you all doing your homework?” is translated, “Vous faites tous vos devoirs?”
How to say, “Are you doing all your homework?“ Different meaning. Tx.
The English translations of the futur anterieur listed here don't make sense to me. For example, "you will have been able to sing on stage" -- what does that even mean?
It does make more sense if the word "would'' was used in the English translation. As in: "If you had been there, you would have been able to sing on stage." But to use "will" doesn't seem correct.
Just curious..would ‘I see that you’re also staying tonight’ translate differently than ‘..staying tonight also’? That is 'restez aussi ce soir' vs 'restez ce soir aussi'
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