I just opened a french novel and the first line is: "Il ne faut pas que l'on nous voie." I searched for negative statements like this on Lawless and found the example here: "Il ne faut pas que nous mangions avec les doigts." So I guess putting the 'ne . . . pas' round 'faut' is correct. It seems strange to me as an Anglophone. If I were making this up, I guess I would say: "Il faut que nous ne mangions pas avec les doigts." Is that incorrect?

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Francis S.A1Kwiziq community member

Why at times, you want us tu write, j'-etais, why the hyphen?

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James W.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

why is it "la marge" when margins here is plural? notebooks' marginS?

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James W.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

these literal meanings need to be revised

saying "literally - and we completely remade my wardrobe" isn't quite right when you've missed out "together"? I feel like these hints aren't helpful and in fact hinder my progress in the text as they aren't "literal" at all. Plus in that sentence, to say "we bought me a new wardrobe" isn't quite what a native English person would say, they'd simply say "and we bought a new wardrobe (for me).

Hope this can be of use and makes sense from my point of view.

Asked 5 years ago

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BTS W.Kwiziq community member

Hello, why don't we remove the "u" in "tu as" just as we do in "j'ai" ?

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