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Maren W.C1Kwiziq community member

se méprendre auxiliary verb: être or avoir?

Hello,

The lesson says that prendre and its derivatives take avoir as an auxiliary verb, including se méprendre. My understanding from previous lessons is that reflexive verbs takes être as the auxiliary. Can you please clarify? Thanks!

Maren

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Krenar K.A0Kwiziq community member

How do you conjugate the verb "être" in the Passé Composé (conversational past)?

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Murat B.C1Kwiziq community member

Pronunciation problem

Hi,

I'm curious of how to distinguish "Ils les leur envoient." and "Il les leur envoie" while listening? They sound same in pronunciation.

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Chapel H.A2Kwiziq community member

Ça vs C'est vs Il estI have read the lessons on all these. In a quiz, asking me to translate "It's getting on my nerves," I chose "Il est" because "it's" must be referring to something specific. We don't know what, but no one says generally "It's getting on my nerves" without "it's" referring to something specific. The correct answer is given as "Ça". Even if "it's" was referring to something general, why would it be "Ça" instead of "C'est"?

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Helen C.A1Kwiziq community member

I thought when an adjective followed a negative verb you had to use the masculine form of the adjective

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Martin R.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

So fast!

It would be so helpful with exercises like this if we could slow the playback down. I play it 20 times and still struggle at times.

Does anyone know of any websites where you can paste the sentence in and adjust the playback?

Thanks

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Mary Anne B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Explanation of Grammar in this Lesson

I do not understand this lesson either. I ask, too, that it be written. I also ask that the columns in the tables be labeled. I don't know what they are trying to say.

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Drew B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Vous êtes bien chez eux

What does "bien" translate as in the first sentence, "Vous êtes bien chez Anne-Sophie et Guy Degrenne?"

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David C.B1Kwiziq community member

Circulate definition wrong?

- We must be able to circulate normally

Should this not be: move around/ travel?

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Jane C.C1Kwiziq community member

confusion about the rule taught and example

If the rule is ne...pas +passe compose +depuis longtemps means not in a long time, surely Martin n'est pas arrive depuis longtemps would translate as Martin hasn't been here in a long time, not Martin hasn't been here long?

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