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The lesson that drew me here said the correct answer was in the imparfait. Ils ne habitaient plus ici but the examples in the lesson do not transition from the present to the imparfait. What makes the difference?
Hi, I don't really understand when to use the present tense and when to use the future tense after "prochain". eg L'année prochaine, il commence l'université AND En septembre prochain, Gareth visitera Madrid. In fact I'm a bit vague on Future/Present options in general....A pointer towards a lesson would be appreciated, Thanks.
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 !
In the other lessons, i saw that "De qui" "Qui" "Dont" "Lequel" and "Duquel" are having the same literal meanings in the English translation. Can, you explain this briefly?
Eg. Le garçon à côté de qui tu es assise a de beaux yeux.
Eg. Voici les amis au sujet desquels nous sommes inquiets.
Eg. Le garçon dont tu parles est très gentil.
Eg. La fille derrière qui je suis assis est belle.
All of them means "Whom' may i know why? and all of them seem so complicated while they literally mean the same.
The text talks about shopping last weekend, not last week. Would it not be more precise to translate " last weekend" to "le week-end dernier" ? Why was this was not permitted ?
I'm confused by the correct answer to this question:
>>La population du Nigeria est de plus de ________ personnes.
I wrote "un cent million de". However, the correct answer was "cent millions de".
Why do we drop the "un" in this case (unlike the examples)? Why is "millions" plural, even though it is only 1 million?
Hi, there’s a typo in the hint “HINT: we = Bastien and his granddad”. It should be “grandad”.
With regard to “avec nos lèvres gercées, notre chair de poule constante et nos nez écarlates !”
As people have one nose each, should this be “… et notre nez écarlate !”?
It would be good to see some examples with que as well, not just qui or qu'
"If including / [number] of which is followed by a conjugated verb, in French you need to add a relative pronoun (qui or que / qu') in front of the verb"
What do the letters OVNI stand for ?
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