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"Quand elle aura des enfants, elle changera d'avis."
Usually we use 'changer de + noun' as a rule. So if I say '"...elle changera de son avis." Why is that incorrect? ....to say... "...she will change her opinion/mind."
When is "we went into (the garden)" "Nous sommes sortis dans le jardin" and when is it "nous sommes allé dans le jardin" The former is used in this exercise but the latter was used in the first exercise "A day with granddad"
Why is the passé composé used here?
Hi! I was wondering if i could use 'aux' for countries like Japan, Nigeria
Or is it just 'au'
Since USA uses 'aux'
Thanks in advance
Can infinitif passé be used with avant de under some circumstances?
Here's an example sentence from my French class:
Il n'ira pas jouer avec ses amis avant d'avoir fini ses devoirs.
The question was to correctly conjugate the verb finir in the bolded place; I'd written finir (infinitif présent) in the first place.
When asked what does this mean, I entered the literal translation.
Why would this not be acceptable as an answere?
Here we use Passé composé because the use of the negation ne ... pas insists on the fact that the action stopped happening at the specific time mentioned (since/for) in the past.
If we used Présent indicatif here, it would make it sound like the action "keeps on stopping" during the given length of time.
To say that a (recurring) action in the past has now stopped happening with depuis, you can also use Présent indicatif with ne ... plus (not any more) instead of ne ... pas:
Tu ne bois plus d'alcool depuis cinq ans.You haven't drunk alcohol for five years.What is the difference between these two?
Je peux la rencontrer aujourd'hui.I can meet her today.
Nous allons lui parler.We are going to talk to her.
I dont understand why "her" is "la" in the first and lui and the second. When to use la or lui for feminine?
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