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"Une délicieuse viande grillée"
I can't find anything in the rules for adjective placement explaining the placement of "délicieuse" before "viande" instead of between "viande and grillée.
If you translate 'the few savings she had left' as 'les maigres économies qui lui restaient' it is corrected to 'les maigres économies qui lui restait'. Is this a mistake?
In English there is a strong feeling to want to say “the period”. Below, the definite article is missing, so it’s just “période”. Is this just the way it is in French?
“se levait et se couchait en même temps que le Soleil du vingt-deux juillet au vingt-trois août, période pendant laquelle apparaissaient les fortes chaleurs.”
The detail says to use Mon, ma or mes but the first to examples use son, sa, ses. Why is that?
My performance on this was dismal (lugubre). I don’t think it was me. It is too difficult for A1, à mon avi.
Why is there no article for "vue"? That is, why "avec vue sur la mer" and not "avec une vue sur la mer"? Merci!
Is there any difference between "il a fait exprès de casser ma poupée" and "il a cassé ma poupée exprès"?
I've only ever encountered the latter before, and it seems more straightforward to not have the extra verb floating around, but perhaps there's a subtle difference that I'm missing?
Why is the verb « aller » inserted in the answer ? « nous te disons de ne pas aller te coucher » . Why isn’t it « nous te disons de ne pas te coucher » ?
Google Translate has 'envoûtant' instead of 'fascinantes' as translation for 'mesmerising' - and Word reference seems to agree. Is this an OK substitute?
Hello,
Why is it not 'tu n'as pas de clope?'
I thought we used a partitive article rather than a definite article when doing negations? So, in this case, de vs. une.
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