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The sentence "Yet, the brochure was promising" is translated : « Pourtant, la brochure était prometteuse ». Why isn't "Quoique, la brochure était prometteuse" correct?
Is it not necessary to have a verb to accompany the adjective for l'autre ?
In a question it was used : "Ils sont différents: l'un est petit et l'autre est grand."
In the example it wasn't :Tom et Maxime sont très différents: l'un est calme et l'autre ( ) hyperactif.
Is there a distinction?
Dumb question - It is "Nous nous sommes dit" because the second "nous" is an indirect object so there is no agreement, right?
Or otherwise
je ne veux pas du tout lait ?
does the 'du tout' cancel out the de ?? (normal sentence: je ne veux pas de lait)
also regarding verbs that need prepositions before the infinitive...
je ne te permets pas du tout de venir ici
or
je ne te demande pas du tout de me voir
Since the beginning of the festivities is a precise and limited event, I thought this would use passe compose "ont commencees." Can someone help me understand why this is imperfait?
And the last sentence: J'ai toujour trouve ca magique," I had thought this would be imparfait since it's ongoing and indefinite.
Why use "on" to say " we" drank, we took etc.
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?
The lesson says quelques can translate as "some" and I’d be interested to know the situation in which you’d use it rather than "des"? Does it emphasise the quantity more?
You really need to get some kind of speed adjustment to these "beginners" exercises I am get frustrated with them. Lines like: "Il y a aussi des nuages noirs dans le ciel" and "donc je pense qu'un orage se prépare" and just too fast. I was feeling happy with myself until I got to the second part and the only reason why I couldn't get them was because of speed!
And yes I will log this with support again.
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