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faire les magasins and faire le shopping are, without further distinction, both correct.
I know que and a vowel is qu' but does the same rule apply to qui?
You hinted I should use ‘he would study’. I used ‘il étudierait’ but you translated: il allait étudier. Why?
In the sentence 'Savez-vous ce que c'est qu'une "irrizina" ?', what is that second 'que' before the 'une' ?
A little bit of confusion here
Here you can see that if is followed by a verb in the Simple Past (won),
As a simple Englishman, I translate that as passé simple which is clearly not what is meant
Ces fêtes ________ incroyables.
It seems to me both Imparfait and Passé Composé could be used here, for different meanings.
"Ces fêtes étaient incroyables." Those parties [which happened regularly, a long time ago] were amazing.
"Ces fêtes ont été incroyables." Those parties [which were not long ago, and which happened only once (e.g. in a specific summer)] were amazing.
I can't even access the video. It says it is private.
I notice that none of the example sentences say where the person is going to, 'Je m'en vais à la plage', for example. Is that because no-one uses s'en aller with an indirect object like that? Or if they do, how would the meaning differ from 'Je vais à la plage' or 'Je pars à la plage'? (I'm wondering if it's a bit like 'I'm outa here' (I am out of here); you'd never say 'I'm outa here to the beach'.)
To the question 'You had shaved completely that morning' I was marked wrong for 'Tu t'étais rasée ....' which is surely correct rather than your answer 'Tu t'étais rasé ....' Please explain.
I'm confused because on many other sites I see both these used as conditionnel. E.g., J'avais pu = I had been able to/could have
Si tu avais pu, tu aurais fait = If you could have, you would have.
Please explain.
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