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It’s « une génération », why is it « ce qui les » which is plural?
Having just looked at another lesson on stress pronouns I thought in this case the stress pronoun came second: Tes amis et toi...???
In the exercise, I completed the sentence "How come you speak French? with "Comment ça se fait que tu parles français?" The answer was marked incorrect - your corrected answer being "Comment se fait que tu parles français?" I didn't see "Comment se fait que" as a choice in the notebook explanation of How come? - although "Comment se fait-il que" was also an option when How come? is followed by a conjugated verb. Please explain. Merci!
I agree with the Kwiziq team members and some others that the words all sound clear, with my connection anyway. After I have completed the exercise and re-listened to the whole passage it magically becomes very clear. My only query is the word "honnêteté" where, despite numerous listens, I can't hear all the syllables, and I was wondering whether it is usually pronounced as spelled "honnêteté", or in common usage is simply pronounced "honnêté"
Pourquoi est-ce que je ne peux pas dire: "Ce sera un festin extraordinaire !" ?
To à qui and à laquelle mean the same thing and are interchangeable?
Are any of these alternative answers possible?
1. Je me souviens toujours de la première fois ... (In place of encore - I often have trouble with encore and toujours in this context of still, but in some cases I believe they can both be equally correct?)
2. Elle a passé la plupart de sa carrière ... (in place of la majorité or l’essentiel)
3. ... dont elle a souffert pendant toute sa vie (in place of ... don’t elle a souffert tout au long de sa vie)
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At the beginning of broadcasts, I've heard things like, "Bonne journée. Nous sommes le mercredi 24 janvier 2024. Commençons notre programme."
Is the "Nous sommes" used formally, or conversationally as well?" Would a teacher say "Nous sommes..." rather than "C'est..," for example? Or if a friend asked for the date, would it be odd to say, "Nous sommes le 24 janvier?
Slightly better, but still "no cigar" -- Some of the problems are vocabulary, but others are apparently confusion re: the verbs - which tense is appropriate - and when to use "on" instead of "nous"
I think I may need a bigger dictionary! I am struggling to find the appropriate word. For example:
Le sol versus le plancher
imparable versus imbattable versus incomparable versus inégalable
évident versus manifeste.
Also the suggested answer "je vais faire une machine" seems to translate as "I'm going to make a machine"
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