Suggested additions and changes ?1. "In any case" - « en tout cas » is red-lined but should be accepted
https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/anglais-francais/case/568797
2. "I will soon be able to get by ..." - « bientôt » is red-lined, but is also correct here. It does not say "quickly/rapidly be able to get by...", - rapidement/vite are currently given as the preferred answers.
3. The previously, extensively discussed "heard that Isabelle IS going to try her luck ..." sentence needs to be changed. It should be, as has previously been noted, 'WAS going to try her luck'. This would then also fit with the lesson which only uses was/were examples to indicate the imparfait to be used here.
The English sentence in its current form is open to several interpretations - it is not French that is the issue here, it is the vagaries of English 'as it is spoke'.
J'allais + [infinitive] to express the near future in the past in French
For the first 2 options above, the suggestions agree with my wife's spontaneous first responses, and for the third, she immediately used imparfait but put a question mark over the use of 'is going to...' rather than 'was going to ... ' in the English sentence.
The question read, How do you say, “We don’t know you at all.” Before I clicked on the drop-down arrow, I was expecting to see: Nous ne vous connaissons pas du tout. I was surprised to see that the choices only included the familiar form: Nous ne te connaissons pas du tout. Wouldn’t the fact that the familiar form was used imply that we do know you? Is it that I was applying a literal meaning to a figurative question?
Mornin Francophiles. I don't quite understand the final sentence 'ça en valait vraiment la peine'. Why is the 'en' pronoun required?
Thanks.
Megan
Why is it "que *de* boire"?
Pourquoi est-ce que je ne peux pas dire: "Ce sera un festin extraordinaire !" ?
lesson said english counties ending in shire were male, so i thought kent was feminine and got marked wrong. how do we learn which counties are male/female?
1. "In any case" - « en tout cas » is red-lined but should be accepted
https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/anglais-francais/case/568797
2. "I will soon be able to get by ..." - « bientôt » is red-lined, but is also correct here. It does not say "quickly/rapidly be able to get by...", - rapidement/vite are currently given as the preferred answers.
3. The previously, extensively discussed "heard that Isabelle IS going to try her luck ..." sentence needs to be changed. It should be, as has previously been noted, 'WAS going to try her luck'. This would then also fit with the lesson which only uses was/were examples to indicate the imparfait to be used here.
The English sentence in its current form is open to several interpretations - it is not French that is the issue here, it is the vagaries of English 'as it is spoke'.
J'allais + [infinitive] to express the near future in the past in French
For the first 2 options above, the suggestions agree with my wife's spontaneous first responses, and for the third, she immediately used imparfait but put a question mark over the use of 'is going to...' rather than 'was going to ... ' in the English sentence.
That is the third kwiz in a row I have been given a phrase like that to type.. All the words are there to see and it is purely an exercise in typing.. Can it please be made multiple choice
Thanks
Édit.. Thé very next kwiz, it was multi-choice!.. Souhaits it is there
My preferred dictionary, Wordreference, distinguishes a car door from an ordinary door in using the word, portière. Should it not be accepted ?
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