Convenir dual conjugationFor some verbs like passer, monter etc there's a rule:
When a verb is followed immediately by a noun (as opposed to a preposition), it uses avoir as the auxiliary, like most verbs.
But in the book « Les verbes et leurs prépositions » (by Jean-Michel Robert, Isabelle Chollet) there's a note for the verb convenir:
Le verbe convenir se conjugue avec l’auxiliaire avoir lorsqu’il a le sens de « plaire, être approprié à », avec l’auxiliaire être lorsqu’il signifie « décider ensemble ».
So I'm confused. What would be the right choice in the following case?
1. La date que vous m’aviez proposée ne m’a pas convenu.
2. La date que vous m’aviez proposée ne m’est pas convenue.
From the one side, here convenir means « plaire, être approprié à », therefore it shoud be conjugated with avoir.
From the other side, there's no COD here: "La date" is the subject and "me" is COI, so être should be used.
Referring to “vous adorerez cette autre idée : modifier un pyjama en flannelle défraîchi.”
for
“you will love this other idea: making alterations to a pair of faded flannel pyjamas.”
I can only find “flanelle” (one “n”, not two) in the dictionaries. And this is a female noun. So should these answers all be “…en flanelle défraîchie.”?
I got marked wrong for writing "Depuis que Amandine...". This is correct, I believe, given that Amandine is a proper noun. Am I wrong here?
In the third line of the dialog, if using inversion "Savez-vous à quelle heure nous atterrissons?", the audio in the exercise has several extra words that do not match the text. I can't remember exactly what they were but at the beginning it says "Pascal", like there were cues for the dialog that were being read as the dialog.
I believe that the adjective arrière is invariant; hence, no need for the plural. If I recall, there was another instance of this in this weekend workout.
I assume that the avoir aspect of the sentence also changes with tense for example:
Imparfaite =J'avais besoin de= I have needed
Future= J'aurai besoin de= I will need
Passe compose= J'ai eu besoin de= I needed
Plus-que-Parfaite= J'avais eu besoin de= I have had needed
etc.
Is this correct?
Why is fut used in the above, rather than était.To the best of my knowledge, we have not been introduced to the Historic?
Lis-tu des romans de temps en temps ?
In the sentence, "Il s'agit de l'un des plus grands bâtiments gothiques d'Europe, dont les fresques finement ouvragées vous laisseront bouche bée d'admiration.”, duquel, referring to 'un', is not offered as a possibility. Why not?
For some verbs like passer, monter etc there's a rule:
When a verb is followed immediately by a noun (as opposed to a preposition), it uses avoir as the auxiliary, like most verbs.
But in the book « Les verbes et leurs prépositions » (by Jean-Michel Robert, Isabelle Chollet) there's a note for the verb convenir:
Le verbe convenir se conjugue avec l’auxiliaire avoir lorsqu’il a le sens de « plaire, être approprié à », avec l’auxiliaire être lorsqu’il signifie « décider ensemble ».
So I'm confused. What would be the right choice in the following case?
1. La date que vous m’aviez proposée ne m’a pas convenu.
2. La date que vous m’aviez proposée ne m’est pas convenue.
From the one side, here convenir means « plaire, être approprié à », therefore it shoud be conjugated with avoir.
From the other side, there's no COD here: "La date" is the subject and "me" is COI, so être should be used.
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