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Why is the music so loud? it's offputting!
Yet, "un vrai nom" can mean a person's real name, correct?
The sentence :
Je suis aussi allé acheter une nouvelle bibliothèque que j’ai passé plus de deux heures à monter.
The hint given was ‘la bibliothèque’.
I took this to mean that passé should agree with bibliothèque and wrote passée.
I was using the rule for the ‘case of subordinate clauses with que’. Why am I wrong here?
On a couple of occasions, after completing a phrase, when I clicked submit, the exercise jumped to the next phrase before I had a chance to see the answer and give myself a mark. Why does this happen?
I notice that in the written and dictation practice exercises, the material drawn upon is mainly focused on the level that the exercise is from, and doesn't seem to build as much on the progress of grammatical topics from previous levels.
I find that in doing lessons from lower levels, I often catch myself not knowing something, and it's very humbling. But that's what I'm here to do (I have a premium subscription to progress with Lawless French), to learn another language.
Thank you in advance for any feedback.
Why is le petit-déjeuner (with hyphen) marked wrong?
Does the use of this phrase (When something has happened, something else will) automatically make the "something else" far enough in the future to use futur simple rather than present tense ? Certainly some of the examples here would likely be fairly soon in the future, but they all use futur simple !
I find that in many of the lessons, the synonyms are often not taken as an alternative. For example "des fois" was not taken as correct for "sometimes". Another example, "cueillir" was marked wrong for "picking", and an alternative "ramasser" was suggested as a correct answer. I'd suggest to expand the choices of synonyms.
In the answers to "and equality also means freedom", it seems as if "l'égalité" and "la liberté" can be used in place of "égalité" and "liberté".
Does this mean that if you use "l'égailté" that you should also use "la liberté", or if you use "égalité" you should use "liberté"? Or is there some subtlety with the verb chosen that would require the use of an article?
Can we use possessive adjectives instead of the definite articles? Why not?
- Pourquoi ma chatte s'est-elle léché sa patte ? [Why did my cat lick HER paw?]
- Tu te laves tes mains? [Are you washing YOUR hands?]
- Il se lave ses cheveux. [He's washing HIS hair.]
It is a little confusing, could you please explain?
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