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Regarding the section "Case of 'à la maison' vs. 'chez moi' ": Would it be correct to use "à la maison" to refer to second and third person subjects when returning to their own homes, e.g. "Elle rentre à la maison" for "She is going back home", or "Tu rentres à la maison" for "You are going back home", etc.?
(The example given for "à la maison" used the first person (je) only and the next section describes subjects going to other people's homes, and not their own).
Merci en avance!
Hello!
I tried a different way of writing the final sentence, and it wasn't accepted by the exercise engine:
"que l'on peut aujourd'hui savourer le champage aux fines bulles qui se connaît dans le monde entier."
I tried this because the English text specified "[that is]" and I thought it was prompting use of "qui" -- is this grammatically in correct?
salut tout le monde !
j'ai une question à propos de Pronom Y,
+Vous avez déjà dormi sous la tente ?
-oui, j'y ai déjà dormi.
est ce que c'est correct ? Je sais bien qu'on a besoin de( à+lieu ) pour pouvoir utiliser Y, et dans ce cas je n'ai aucune idée.
(peut être on peut répondre en utilisant cod:je l'ai déjà dormi.(?) )
merci d'avance pour vos réponses.
Dear Cecile and Maarten,
Thank you both for your explanations. I have read the lesson you refer to several times, as well as the relevant links, (and done the kwizes), but I still get a little confused with this issue. I plan to review this subject regularly, as I have found by doing so I eventually achieve an understanding of subjects that at first are not clear to me. I am wondering if maybe the lesson could be expanded someway to include more exercise questions or if it could be broken up into several separate lessons? Perhaps "an/annee" could have its own lesson?
Merci beaucoup !
I was going to write about 'very fun' here - it is a controversial phrase in English to say the least ! I haven't heard it used in about the past 60 years. However, I see this has come up in another topic, where 'very fun' was subsequently to be changed to 'great fun' - this should be done in this lesson as well. The preferred answers should also reflect that 'great fun' is not the same as 'very funny'.
While I am here, 'next week's test' - a student is talking, so the informal « l'interro » is more likely than « l'évaluation » unless a major assessment is proposed. Although the final transcript reasonably uses « le test », the correction board on the way through scrubbed « l'interro » for the more formal « l'évaluation », indicating that as the 'best answer' .
On the next screen « camarade de classe » for 'classmate' (correct) was crossed off for the imprecise and less formal « camarade ». Either should be indicated as being correct.
I just asked my French son in law if he or his friends or family ever call it "Saint Sylvestre", and he says,
"non on ne dit jamais ca, on dit juste le nouvel an."Is it really very common to say Saint Sylvestre? Could that be regional, eg in Paris as opposed to southern part of the country where he's from?
My teacher says there are rules for using the subject sentences. I can't find them anywhere.
Am I the only one who can't stop hearing a distinct v sound as in "Tu vas une idée, toi ?" ? I knew it didn't make sense to use aller in this context but I still can't help hearing the guy say 'vas'.
In one of the A2 tests, I see « Il faut toujours regarder devant soi. » and « Il faut toujours essayer soi-même avant de juger. » When do you use soi vs soi-même? I keep getting docked for choosing soi-même in the first sentence.
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