French language Q&A Forum

Bonjour. I am guessing that using sortir for the release of a film is an exception to the rule. It appears to me that the example provided does contain a direct object immediately following the verb: "Le nouveau James Bond est sorti la semaine dernière." i.e. "la semaine".

Bonjour

In the video where it states that amour is masculine and amours is feminine there is an example ... de grandes amours.

Why is  de and not des

I just wanted to offer that it helps me to remember the correct use of this verb if I think about it in this way.

   "Je lui manque" = "I am missed by her/him." -> (ie. S/he misses me.)

   "Nous manquons à Pat." = " We are missed by Pat." (ie. Pat misses us.)

This method helps me to remember 1) the order of the sentence, 2) the subject to use to conjugate the verb, and 3) that there is an indirect object (by, à) so you have to use an indirect pronoun (or à if using a noun).