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Hello,
I'm hoping you can clarifying something.
I had to translate the following sentence to French:
This year I remembered her birthday for the first time
I used:
Je me souvenais s'anniversaire pour la première fois.
I was told this conjugation was incorrect and I had to use "je me suis souvenue".
I don't understand why?
Thanks in advance.
This is more of a comment than a question. My problem is that in terms of the grammar, I know all the concepts and have achieved 90% in my progress reports. I only achieved 50% for this because of the speed and liaison/elision of the speaker. For example "moins le quart" sounded to me like moinsquart. I did not pick up the "le". Another example "Le taxi arrivera vers six heures et demie", I didn't hear "vers" at all, so substituted "à" for it to make sense. I need B1 to be successful in an application for citizenship. Phew!! I've got a long way to go.
The correct answer is: mais ce matin, j'ai reçu un email qui m'informait que cet article était à présent en rupture de stock
but why not .....qui m'a informé que cet article est à présent en rupture de stock.
dont has been used like this i think or am i know totally confused?
Hello, in the example "Au cas où vous vous demanderiez où elle est, elle est allée au marché" the translation is "In case you're wondering where she is, she went to the market." How would the sentence change if we want to say "In case you were wondering where she is, she went to the market."?
What about the example "In case you get hungry, I made you a sandwich", how can that be changed to "In case you were hungry, I made you a sandwich" in the French translation?
We don't have much to eat
Is the following a possible translation?
Nous n'avons pas beaucoup à manger
I have noticed that all the phrases use the pronouns, "le or la". As in:
"La fille dont le frere travaillait avec moi..."
"Francois, dont j'ai rencontre la femme..."
Is there any problem with saying the following for example?:
"La fille, dont son frere travaillait avec moi, a gagne le prix"
"La femme, dont son fils j'ai rencontre la semaine derniere..."
"Amelie, dont ses enfants sont venus chez nous, sont bien eleves"
In the test for this lesson there is a sentence "Tu arriveras d'ici lundi" and the answer is "You'll get here by Monday.".
Isn't this a wrong translation? The sentence should be "you will arrive BY Monday(d'ici lundi). To say "you will get HERE by Monday" should be "Tu y arriveras d'ici lundi" or cringe "Tu arriveras ICI d'ici lundi. "
Unless the verb arriver without a destination defaults to "here".
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