QUESTION #1 on the short quiz. I love the question and its hint "How would you say ''I haven't been in France for long.'' ?(literally: I haven't long arrived to France.)
The answer: Je ne suis pas arrivé en France depuis longtemps.
Je ne me sens pas intelligent et j'ai l'air stupide comme ça depuis longtemps !!! I think i get it! I know I got it! OOOPS me no get it!!
The hint imposes a thought process on the reader which would not be there otherwise. Clever... it reinforces the understanding of the verb 'arriver' as a sort of process.... and shakes up the marbles in the old nuggin.
However!!! My question. I arrived in France 'yesterday' and I am telling someone today that "I haven't been in France for long". I am thinking it calls for the Present indicative and depuis. Since i was in France as of yesterday(the past) and am still here today (the present).
Je ne suis pas en France depuis longtemps!!!
Without the hint and its imposition of the verb 'arriver' then doesn't this question change dramatically.
Help!!!!!!!
Do "Ma soeur est Lady Gaga" and "Ma soeur hait Lady Gaga" sound the same?
Hello,
Your one of the writing practice exercise suggests the translation for "and the accordion used to touch her chin" as "et l'accordéon lui touchait le menton !"
In the lesson above there is no example of usage of pronouns such as "lui".
That is why I am lacking this concept.
Please add this part also above and let me know so that I can enhance my knowledge on the same.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Ashish
The answer translates revisier as 'review' meaning, I assume, to read them again in preparation for an exam, but in english english it is more likely to mean, addressed to the teacher, ' take a look at your lessons and make sure they don't need updating'. If we want to mean 'read again and learn to prepare for an exam' we say 'revise'. Doing revision is the noun therefrom.
"nous nous sommes fait faire les ongles"
Why is "fait" not "faites" that multiple females had their nails done?
Would the past subjunctive have been incorrect in the phrase "before Belinda suggested"? I translated the phrase as "avant que Belinda n'ait suggéré".
There is a lesson named "Le nôtre, le vôtre, le leur, etc = Ours, yours, theirs (possessive pronouns)", in which there is a sentence as "J'aime bien ta voiture, elle est mieux que la leur" which now seems perfectly convincing as "mieux" is used ingeneral statements with être. However, when we think of "pire", it seems partly as the correspondant of "mieux" since it is used when we are talking about general statements with être and to this respect, I anticipated that "mieux" should be used in the sentence "Ces voitures sont les pires du monde/Ces voitures sont les plus mauvaises du monde.". This sentence is given as an example of the rule "qualifying something as bad/worse/the worst at what it does", but it seems to me that this sentence is comparing "these" cars with the other ones in the world in a general context.
1-can we replaces "y" with verbs which have infinitive verbs
2-can we replaces "en" with verbs which have infinitive vers
for example
1-J'ai besoin de dormir----- j'ai en besoin
2-je chosis de faire mes devoirs
I love the question and its hint "How would you say ''I haven't been in France for long.'' ?(literally: I haven't long arrived to France.)
The answer: Je ne suis pas arrivé en France depuis longtemps.
Je ne me sens pas intelligent et j'ai l'air stupide comme ça depuis longtemps !!! I think i get it! I know I got it! OOOPS me no get it!!
The hint imposes a thought process on the reader which would not be there otherwise. Clever... it reinforces the understanding of the verb 'arriver' as a sort of process.... and shakes up the marbles in the old nuggin.
However!!! My question. I arrived in France 'yesterday' and I am telling someone today that "I haven't been in France for long". I am thinking it calls for the Present indicative and depuis. Since i was in France as of yesterday(the past) and am still here today (the present).
Je ne suis pas en France depuis longtemps!!!
Without the hint and its imposition of the verb 'arriver' then doesn't this question change dramatically.
Help!!!!!!!
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