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I just saw in an exercice- Il a pris la voiture de son ami.
The answer with the pronoms- il lui a pris la voiture.
Here the preposition is 'de', not 'à'.
How to understand this?
Why is "mon exam" used in the first sentence and "mon examen" in the second to last?
Why do you use the passe simple here (tu agis for 'you were acting') instead of "tu as agi" or "tu agissais" ?
I did not get "The masculine adjectives chaud and froid never agree in gender or number, even if the person/thing it refers to is female or plural:" can someone please explain what they meant? maybe some examples? please
Bonjour,
I found very interesting sentence causing me a headache.... "Il n'en est venu aucun".
According to lessons, the sentence is negated by placing the two parts of the negation on each side of the auxiliary verb (avoir or être) in a compound sentence like the passé..
However, as you can see in this sentence, one part of negation, "aucun" is located at the end of sentence. And I found this sentence from a dictionary and so there must be no grammer problem...
I've been searching and googling for hours but did not get any to understand the sentence...So, May I ask someone to kindly explain this please?
Thank you so much in advance!
Why is de longeur considered incorrect if it included as an option in lesson?
I used John Darbelnet's Pensée et Structure when studying French at Purdue University in the late 60s and early 70s. He did not offer a "faire" construction at all. There were four choices:
Ce bâtiment a une longueur de trente mètres.
Ce bâtiment a trente mètres de longueur.
Ce bâtiment a trente mètres de long.
Ce bâtiment est long de trente mètres.'
It's things like this that make me question the quality of this site. John Darbelnet was a distinguished pedagogue but of a different era. I would be interested in further input. La grande robert has been of no help.
Max Kime, Indianapolis
Can u explain the agreement of past participle with the relative pronoun qui
"Plonk" in english means an "ordinary, cheap, possibly inferior" wine. It does not mean bad wine. Does "la piquette" mean bad, or inferior, or both ??
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