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Salut,
thank you in advance to anyone who can help me! I have three questions:
1. Of these three forms which would a French person use the most naturally in speaking and writing?
2. Is it OK to use "duquel" and "de laquelle" when referring to people and not to things?
3. If the verb is one which takes a different preposition (not "de") what should we use instead of "dont"?
Merci beaucoup!
Are the baby names inherently masculine, or do they have female counterparts too, such as un chiot --> une chiotte; un chaton --> une chatonne etc?
Hi , the point I was trying to make in my question immediately below was that the lesson states that the subjunctive applies after 'vouloir que' where a desire for "someone else" to do something is involved. In the sentence that I quote it is 'something else' that is involved i. e. son film, and not "someone else".
Could you please clarify.
Thank you
Could be an improvement over the current phrasing. And -GUER doesn't need explanation as it fits the general rule as would -IER verbs.
Please can someone explain why, when there is an inverted question and the subject is a noun, there is not a comma after the subject, as I was taught when I learned French at school?
It's great that Christmas gets a mention in this lesson. However, in the 500+ tests I've done I don't remember a single question mentioning Christmas. There have been questions mentioning Aid, a fair few mentioning Hanukkah and loads mentioning Thanksgiving. Please add a few questions involving Christmas! I believe it's considered rather an important festival in the USA, as well as the UK and elsewhere.
I have been subscribed to Lawless French for many years and appreciate your lessons, and also the Kwizig quizzes at the end of each lesson, but recently where I read "Test yourself on some of the French grammar used in this article" no quiz follows. Can you tell me why??
Hi,
"chat" is a masculine noun in French, but can I use it to refer to my female cat?
When I'm talking about her, e.g. my cat is going to eat her breakast, do I still say
"Mon chat vas manger son petit-dejeuner?"
What is the best way of talking about my female cat in this context?
I’m not sure about the English “physical efforts” , in my mind “physical effort seems less difficult (to me)”
so “l’effort physique me paraît moins difficile” ?
The following quoted material appears at: https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/passe-compose-vs-imparfait/
All in the past vs Relevance to presentImparfait describes something that is entirely in the past.
Il voulait toujours être médecin. He always wanted (used to want) to be a doctor.J’y mangeais souvent. I often ate there / I used to eat there often (but never again).Passé composé explains something that started in the past and continues today.
Il a toujours voulu être médecin. He has always wanted to be a doctor.J’y ai souvent mangé. I have often eaten there (and might again).Are you sure you don't have this in reverse? It seems like the passé composé would be used for the finished actions in the quote above.
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