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HughC1Kwiziq community member

Agreement of Participle with Indirect Object

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As I was saying (!), in the examples there is agreement between the indirect object and the participle:

La télé? Oui, Marc l'a regardée

Ces épisodes? Il les avait déjà vus

If this is the case, then shouldn't 'Tu lui as parlé' translate as 'You talked to him', BUT 'Tu lui as parlée translate as 'You talked to her'?

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RobertC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

A more basic question:In the example "Ils attendent son arrivée d'une minute à l'autre" would the wording be different if the person awaited is female?

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BrianB1Kwiziq community member

It looks like there's a problem in the third box (second green one). The text makes no sense.This doesn't make sense and it doesn't include any example!
"In order to turn a sentence from active to passive voice, the tense of the auxiliary be must be the Saami have the tense of the verb hand of the active sentence.
For example:"

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FrankC1Kwiziq community member

it seems someone would give "plusieurs" fleurs but there would be "de nombreuses" fleurs in a field.

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CrystalMaidenC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Can you use eut/fut instead of avait, is that wrong?I know it's only gonna be right for literary writing and storytelling, but still. You can do that instead of the pluperfect in writing, right?

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ShrutiA1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Please if you can help me out to understand where to put de+infinitive. I am so confused.

Par example- laissez-moi de penser pourquoi de ici ?

C’est mon rêve de travailler à l’étranger. Why I putted de here I can simply write c’est mon rêve travailler.

Et je sais que je dois pratiquer. Why here it’s not de after pratiquer?

Please if you can share me the lesson of this I have tried to search a lot but I am not able to understand properly where to put de+infinitive and where not.

Thank You :)

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CrystalMaidenC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Do I always have to use " en silence " instead of " silencieusement " ?

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PaulC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

aller à and aller bien àCan you please explain when to use bien. In the examples where bien is used it is sometimes translated as "really" and sometimes ignored in the translation.

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AnnC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Aren't there some past participles that don't ever agree? In 501 verbs, some are listed with their pp showing possible agreement and some not. Eg réveillé(e)(s) but réussi

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RobinB1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Why not use elle instead of lui in the above sentence Il lui envoie deux millieurs de roses. Same for Il lui envoie deux mille rose? Are these typos?

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