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I was wondering as I am understanding adjectives. I'm confused on extrêmement! There was a sentence in my book that saying un extrêmement vieux livre but it was marked wrong when I put extrêmement at the end of the noun live. Why is that wrong?

Thank you!!

How do I put the accents with my laptop. I can do it with my I phone but I don't know how to do it with my computer

How do I distinguish between "l'a défini" and "la définit" from speech? Are there any clues to point at the tense used?

Bonjour à tous, 

I've come access this sentence somewhere using "être on train de" in Conditionnel passé tense:

I would have been skying in the Alps if I hadn’t broken my leg.

Je serais en train de skier dans les Alpes si je ne m’étais pas cassé la

jambe.

I think we must use avoir (in Conditionnel présent) + être (in past participle) as follow:

J'aurais été en train de skier....

Could you explain which one is correct?

Merci beaucoup d'avance.

In one of the questions - Tu vaux la peine.

As far as I understand, there should be an 'en' between 'Tu' and 'vaux'.

Am I right?

"vous alternerez avec des couches d'oignons et de lardons".

why is it des couches d'oignons and then de lardons?

In the lesson it explicitly states "Note that in French, if you're using après + [verbe], we consider that this action always takes place in the past of when you're speaking. "

However the following was a question for the tests on the lesson.

"After going food shopping, I'll help you with your homework." This is neither 'said in the past' NOR actually already happed(ie 'in the past'). While inelegant, it means "After i go shopping I will help you ..."  The stipulated correct answer was "Après avoir fait les courses, je t'aiderai avec tes devoirs.'

Seems to fit the following translation "Apres je aurai fait les courses, je t'aiderai avec tes devoirs. Since both aactions are scheduled for the future with the homework help being predicated on the shopping being done.

Is this lesson basically telling us to memorize these select phrases? Because it doesn't tell us when else to use imperative subjunctive. How can we know?

Ces fêtes ________ incroyables.

It seems to me both Imparfait and Passé Composé could be used here, for different meanings.

"Ces fêtes étaient incroyables."  Those parties [which happened regularly, a long time ago] were amazing.

"Ces fêtes ont été incroyables." Those parties [which were not long ago, and which happened only once (e.g. in a specific summer)] were amazing.