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une pomme à cuire = a cooking apple jumps out to me as an odd one out. You wash with a washing machine, iron with an iron and sew with a sewing machine but the apple is the one being cooked here. Is this a peculiarity of edible things or does the French just work differently to English?
Merci Aurelie. This was a really fun and uplifting song to listen to. Great listening practice. You are right - it is a bit fast, but I was able to follow along while reading the lyrics. Actually, the first two lines were the hardest to understand - I'm not even sure what it means in English to 'redden the tea in Amman's souks'!
Loved watching everyone draw their colorful images, too.
Selon Tom, elles seraient rentrées chez elles vers 3h.
According to Tom, they went home (lit.would have gone home) around 3.
The French sounds as if it should be translated as the time they "got home" whereas the English "went home" implies it is the time they left -- time travel ?
Lovely resource, really impressed by the thought that's gone into this and the ease of use. I just got C1 on self test but less than half marks on the written exercise, confirming that written French is where I need to up my game!
J'ai écrit 'leur prouesse'. Est-ce qu'il y a une différence phonétique entre le singulier et le pluriel?
Why do we use "de" in this sentence and not "des"?
Comme chaque année depuis que tu nous as quittéS
I did read the lesson on past participle agreement with avoir but am still not sure why the 's' is needed in the above.
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