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Why: "afin de pouvoir les utiliser comme un engrais naturel"
when, "afin l'utiliser comme un engrais naturel"
would seem to be a more elegant answer, and be a more literal translation? Adding pouvoir seems to complicate the issue.
I wrote 'rencontrerez' for the future of the verb rencontre, & I got it right in the fill-in-the-blank exercise Horoscope de l'année (Le Futur); however, it doesn't seem to fit into the pattern for either regular -er and -ir verbs in the future or -re and -dre verbs in the future, and it directed me to this page, so I'm confused.
Is 'une première' in the second line feminine because it's short for 'une première fois'?
More and more the Kwizik algorithm resembles a policeman hiding behind a bush in order to catch a speeding motorist. Please inform us if we haven't answered a question. A lot of the time it is accidental!???????????????
For "I won't write here all that I've done wrong", the answer uses the conditional "je n'écrirais pas ..." . Shouldn't we use the future tense in this sentence (i.e. "je n'écrirai pas ...") ? Thanks.
I have found a number of diving sites that use < plongée libre >, as well as < plongée en apnée >. Decathlon uses both in its advertising, and Collins also translates 'free-diving' to < plongée libre >.
And for snorkelling - Larousse gives < faire de la plongée avec un tuba >, which seems to be about the only expression that gets the red line. (A mask is not essential equipment for snorkelling)
https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/anglais-francais/snorkelling/612936
I am confused about the differences between que and quoi and why you could not use quoi instead of que in some of these.
In the quiz there's a sentence that reads:
Christophe finissait son déjeuner quand les autres sont arrivés.
The English translation says
Christopher was finishing his breakfast when the others arrived.
The quiz says déjeuner not petit-déjeuner.
Les filles aiment ________________ yeux. The girls like your eyes.
Why is my "bien tes" answer marked as incorrect, and the correct answer as aiment. The girls like his eyes, they don't love his eyes.
Thank you
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