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Martin R.B1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Plurelising the mountains

In the sentence J'adore la vie à la montagne, I translate that as I love the life in the mountains. I was wondering why it isn't J’adore la vie dans les montagnes. Could anyone explain please?

Merci beaucoup

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Maeve L.A2KwizIQ community member

Why does the translation of “You were late this morning” use the imparfait tense when it is a 1 off specified action and not repeated?

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Tom A.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

Indicative or subjunctive?

I am looking at this sentence - 'Je passerais beaucoup de temps à prendre soin de lui, en lui parlant, le caressant, lui donnant des friandises - après m'être assuré qu'elles sont adaptées à ses besoins bien sûr !' - and thinking that the verb with 'adaptées' would naturally go into the subjunctive ('soient adaptées'), not the indicative, because the whole scenario is speculative rather than real. Or does this kind of hypothetical writing not normally call for the subjunctive?

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Danielle A.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Are these the only cases of imperative subjunctive meaning we should memorize this list?

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?

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David B.C1KwizIQ community member

Correction needed?In the lesson we are given plural examples and the singular examples are next, so shouldn't "(Note that y can replace plural things too)" be "(Note that y can replace singular things too)"?

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Thirza O.A2KwizIQ community member

Prepositions - en or à

Is it possible to use à instead of 'en' when saying "Je suis à ville."?.....Thirza0

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