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What's the difference between the locations that can have preceding articles and those that can't?
Sometimes Vouloir (to want) is conjugated as veux at the present tense, but sometimes it is conjugated as veux for the pronoun je. Does this have to do with formality?
Whilst "dans" obviously translates to "in" - I would never say I'm going to stay in this hotel in English; I would say that I'm going to stay at a this hotel in English.
However, I was marked incorrect.
The sentence to be translated: I can listen to them for hours!
I wrote: Je peux les écouter pendant des heures !
The exclamation mark was marked as incorrect even though it was called for in the original sentence.
sorry im totally lost where each one should be used, and ieven in questions verb is after it when in lesson says cant be. Is there a really simply dummys guide please, i
You example : Sam fait de l'aïkido. Sam does aikido. How can you explain the right answer as ".... going to dance lesson..."?
I've seen quite a few cricket matches and have always found them to be somewhat boring as the game is so slow compared to baseball, (no offense to my British counterparts, here). But, that may be because I never have really understood what was going on.
I liked this exercise and learned a new expression: "donner les grandes lignes" - "to give an outline". And, now that I have "les grande lignes" for cricket, I might enjoy watching a match more!
Just a note: "le batteur" sounds more like, "le batere"
Merci !
Is there a rule that explains why it is « j’ai passé une demi-heure à gratter » and not « en grattant » ? I find it very tricky to know when to use à properly. « Une tasse à thé ». « C’est à moi de le faire ». I can memorize word situations that call for « à « but not a working rule I can rely on. Thanks.
Pourriez-vous me dire ??????
Quelle est la différence entre
C'est longue/ Elle est longue.
(La liste est longue)
Merci
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