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How would one differentiate between "He hates the coffee shop" and "he hates the coffee" ? They Both seem to be "il déteste le café". Would you use "les cafes" for all of them and "c'est cafe" for a specific one?
Je me demande pourquoi "incomparables" s'accorde avec "légèreté et confort" plutôt qu'avec "une matière". N'est-ce pas la matière qui est incomparable, plutôt que les qualités de la matière ?
Hmm, après l'avoir écrit, je pense que je peux le voir dans les deux sens.... mais, n'empêche, n'est-ce pas une possibilité que l'accord pourrait être avec la matière quand-même ?
Instead of using être in 'to be clowns', can you use instead "s'agisser" (in the subjunctive present)?
I thought a phrase starting with " En grandissant.." would trigger the imperfect. However in this particular writing exercise of B1: "A Childhood Passion" the sentences that follows that aforementioned "gérondif" are in the simple past.
I have been doing these exercises weekly for five years and I just realized the true purpose of the dots under the play button. Pushing on them allows one to isolate a part of the recording for repeated listening. How utterly helpful! What a slow learner I am in regard to technology! I am posting this because there are others who might be similarly challenged. A better approach would be to highlight this feature beyond an individual exercise.
pourquoi pas "je n'y manquerais pas pour rien au monde"? does manquer not work here ? i thought this was a standard phrase to use.
In the sentence, ”In any case, we'd better plan for the worst.”, I translated the first part by "Quoi qu'il arrive", which was not accepted. Is this expression correct or incorrect in this context?
Although I found this exercise challenging (I gave myself 49 out of 70) keep them coming as I think I learn a lot, especially by examining the various alternatives.
Could you use "se renseigner sur" instead of "découvrir", or would there be some nuance between those in this context? i.e. "J'ai adoré me renseigner sur l'histoire d'Anne de Bretagne..."
Why didn't we use comme bébé here, in keeping with the English text, where it said as a baby?
"Il a plu de lundi à vendredi.
It rained from Monday to Friday."
Why is this sentence not l'imparfait, because Monday to friday is for a period of time ? Meaning it rained continually for some time
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