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Am not seeing "I was in a queue this morning" as an option.. looking for "a line" and because I don't answer, it keeps asking me the same question.
All the examples have been made inclusive of English English.
I thought they were the same as English's what and which but I feel like that's wrong.
When is "le" omitted from "le français"? Is it only with "parler", or is there a general rule? I ask in relation to this Q&A:
"He will study either French or Italian" = "Il étudiera soit le français soit l'italien".
I have found it useful to translate rappeler as 'recall'. It's synonymous with remind, but its English language grammar is more similar to rappeler- you recall x to someone , you remind x of someone - and rappeler surely has a root in appeler, to call, re-appeler, recall. Helpful?
According to Larousse, Collins and Academie-françiase, « serre-tête » is invariable. Word Reference and Robert list «serre-têtes», but it is not the 'official version' apparently.
From the Académie :SERRE-TÊTE. n. m.■ Ruban ou coiffe dont on se serre la tête. Des serre-tête.
There is no clue given across these 2 sentences to indicate that the 2nd sentence is a general statement, rather than referring to 'being in my garden'. Understood as the latter, couldn't "Je l'ai trouvé toujours magique" also be a correct translation ?
The ce vs. il/elle question is driving me crazy! I've created a detailed flowchart and I still get them wrong. Why is this "C'est"?
Tu aimes l'école? Oui, ________ est très intéressant!"Elle" is used when expressing an opinion of a specific thing, here, a school. Your own example uses, "Tu aimes mon pull? Oui, il est très beau." How is this any different?????
In this sentence - 'William Jones déclarait au sujet de cette langue ancestrale : "La langue sanscrite...' - why is the imperfect used with an action that happened only once, and on a specified date ?
Example above we have used "Ils ont été" to mean "they were", however I learned elsewhere that to say one was, in the past, we always use imparfait, which in this case would have been "ils étaient". Please help me understand.
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