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Is the phrase 'Qui que ce soit' followed by the subjunctive?
The quiz question
9Tu as un enfant? -Non, je n'ai pas ________ enfant.Do you have a child? -No, I don't have a child.which leads to this lesson is ambiguous in my opinion. I selected Non, je n'ai pas un enfant purely because I would have expected the english for je n'ai pas un enfant to be I don't have children instead of no, I don't have a child. They have slightly different meanings and I believe my answer to be more accurate. I stand to be corrected on that though?
A couple of the examples appear to use être in constructing the past tense:
Yann est passé par ton quartier
While others use avoir:
Nous avons passé une semaine
Hi !
In the question Audrey adores ____________. , I found the answer was le mercredis. Why did the answer use le instead of les ?
Hope you answer soon !
Besides 'comme celles que j'avais eues les premiers mois', one of the recommended translations of 'like the ones that I'd had during the first few months' is 'telles que j'avais eues pendant les premiers mois'.
But the antecedent is 'une hallucination'.
So shouldn't this option be 'telle que j'avais eue pendant les premiers mois'...?
Not exactly related to the lesson but one of my quizzes had the sentence: “Je mangeais une nourriture très riche.”
I’m wondering why “une” was used here and not the partitive article “de la”, especially since it’s an unquantified amount of food? This was confusing to me.
Bonjour. My husband and I will be in France in a few weeks and are renting a car. We’ll be in the Dordogne region on rural roads and even after reading about it I still don’t understand about stopping for cars entering from the right. It seems impractical to stop at every intersection on a road when a small road on the right has a car. Any hints on how this works ? Thank you. I’m using Lawless to work seriously on my French but am scared about driving as I’m only around a B1 level.
I've read all the comments here and in the related links, several times.
It seems the rule be stated as, there's NO gender/number agreement of the participle when there is a direct object following the verb.
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il peut être embarrassant parfois. → il peut être parfois embarrassant.Find your French level for FREE
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