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On a quiz, it says the answer is “le lendemain DU mariage” not DE mariage. Why? All the samples say DE.
The next day, I was enrolling at university.
Shouldn't this be 'I was going to enrol at university'?Or 'je m'inscrivais..?'
Why not "elle devait" since she had to work hard over a period of time to pass her musical exam?
The answer choice inlcudes 'Aurelie only went to the market - and nowhere else' and 'Aurelie went to the market - and did nothing else'. Can you please explain why these sentences mean different things? Aurelie only went to the market. End of, surely?
Why is it sometimes « ne pas de » plus infinitive, « ne pas a » plus infinitive, or in other examples simply « ne pas » plus infinitive? Can someone explain the reason for the use of de or a, or their omission? Thank you.
In the first line, "...I used to sleep all the time." Instead of "je dormais tout le temps", can I write "j'avait l'habitude de dormir tout le temps"?
For the translation of 'thin, clean' does it matter which order the adjectives appear in French ?
I don't understand why "depuis" is used here despite the fact that we use "depuis" for ongoing actions as stated in the lesson below.
Using the present tense (Le Présent) - and not the compound past (Le Passé Composé) - in sentences with "depuis" (since/for) in French (French Prepositions of Time)
i've also seen "jouer à des jeux de société" as the translation for "to play board games" (www.linguee.com). Are there two thoughts on the translation, eg.Canadian French ?
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