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Stewart H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Use of trouviez (imperfect tense)."J'ai vraiment besoin que vous trouviez la raison pour laquelle il ne marche plus," ... this is the translation for:

"I really need you to find out the reason why it's not working anymore,"

Regarding the above please explain why the imperfect tense is used for the verb trouver (trouviez), I would have thought that either the present tense (trouvez) ... "you find out"

or the future tense (trouverez) ... "you will find out"

would correctly translate from the English text?

Thank you.

Asked 5 years ago

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Mary C.B1Kwiziq community member

How to add accent marks

How do I add accent marks?

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Frank C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Fleurs de coton

What are fleurs de coton? White flowers?

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Rose Y.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Use of subjunctive

Why is it "bien que ton papa et moi soyons en manque de sommeil" rather than "bien que ton papa et moi ayons été en manque de sommeil"?

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Maarten K.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Toujours or encore ?

Toujours is being red-lined at the end of this lesson. However as the action "hesitation' or 'being unsure' is ongoing, these 3 links from Laura Lawless suggest to me that toujours is the better word for 'still' in this context. At the very least, they indicate that toujours is a correct option.

thttps://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/encore-vs-toujours/

https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/encore/

https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/toujours/

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manpreet kaur j.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Can we say Willian a pris soin de la dinde instead of William s’est occupé de la dinde ?

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Neil J.C1Kwiziq community member

What is a COD (ref Chris replying to Q about agreement of participles

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Adelaida L.C1Kwiziq community member

Negation conjugated verb + infinitive with object pronouns?

Hi. Could you please send examples of negation with object pronouns and conjugated verb + infinitive? So for example are these sentences wrong:

Je ne veux pas les y retrouver?

On ne peut pas y en acheter? On ne peut pas y acheter plus?

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S. M.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

les raies Manta qui nous ont envoûtées.

In this phrase from the solution to "Un voyage de rêve", the word "nous" presumably refers to a father, mother and children. So why the final "e" in "envoûtées"? I'd use "envoûtés" here.

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nicole r.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Using inverting or est ce que

Hello,

I have a question. I understand how to use the inverted question when you have a vowel -t . But my question is is there an easy way to understand when to use either the Estimate ce- que or the inverted?

Thank you

Nicole

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