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Sometimes I really struggle with deciding whether to use imparfait or passé composé. In this example, the English phrase is:
"I've always dreamed of going (there),
For me, I translated this to "Je rêvais toujours d'y aller," as it is something in the past, but not a fixed point with a clear start and stop. It is something that occurred over a period of time and is still occurring. However, the correct answer was passé composé with "J'ai toujours rêvé d'y aller,"
Can you please explain to my why passé composé is used here and not imparfait? I'm very frustrated and feel like this is something I'm never going to get.
Can you give me some questions where I have to put je or j’
Why in the phrase "J'ai plus de livres que toi" the letter S is readable, and in the phrase "Tom a plus de cent euros dans son porte-feuille !" - not?
Le leçon dit: To say to scare [someone] in French, you use the expression faire peur à + [quelqu'un].
Literally : "to do/give fear to [someone]"
À Halloween, je fais peur à mes neveux !At Halloween, I scare my nephews!
Donc, pourquoi est "Le fantôme fait peur à elle" incorrect?
The ghost scares her." ?
Le fantôme lui fait peur. Le fantôme fait peur à elle. (Marked wrong--pourquoi?)MerciA minor thing but: at the top of the answers given for each exercise it shows a dash after each number but under "Kwizbot's Answer" it shows a period after each number, except for #6, which shows no punctuation. In "Here's the full text for you to read and listen to:" there is no punctuation given after any of the numbers.
What is the convention for numbered lists like this en français ?
J'ai mis "dû", plutôt que "due", parce que je n'arrivais pas à voir avec quoi il était d'accord. Et je n'ai pas pu regarder en arrière pour en deviner !
Faisait-il un accord avec "reputation"? Peut-être il faut quelque chose dans les "hints" pour dire cela ?
Bonjour à tous,
In this text, I was thinking this should have been dûe (avec un accent circonflexe) , is this something that was given a reformed spelling ?
e.g. dûe à l'agilité de
Merci , Paul.
I am not sure about the UK but in America you play ON a team or FOR a team. You never play IN a team.
Hi, is this missing a “longues”?
“so I find the long queues [US: lines] horrible.
Kwizbot's answer:
alors je trouve les queues horribles.
OTHER POSSIBLE ANSWERS:
donc je trouve les queues horribles”
In colloquial French, is the après ever dropped, similar to English.
After having eaten, I did st. = Having eaten, I did st.
Après avoir mangé, j'ai fait qqc., can it be Avoir mangé, j'ai fait qqc. colloquially?
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