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Is there any way of speeding up the audio to something more akin to proper speech?
Re Daniel E’s post and responses below
I’m finding the use of the subjunctive past for future actions unexpectedly tricky, I think because the English "I need to leave by nine" or "they need us to arrive", already includes the idea of a completed future action (you can’t leave without having left or arrive without having arrived!)
Is the subjunctive present ever an option in this type of sentence or is the subjunctive past mandated?
Chers amis,
Please clarify my doubt. Mon école est à côté des appartements or Mon école est à côté d'appartements
Which one is right? does de gets contracted to des or changes to d' as appartements starts with a vowel.
Thanks in advance.
Why does “started to cry” use mettre? “ mis a pleurer. Can’t make sense of it
Hi, in “d'où l'on pouvait admirer la vallée du Rouvres en contrebas,” is the “l’” in “l’on” purely for euphonics (i.e. it carries no meaning)?
I don’t understand why this translates in the present as well as in the historic past?
hi, why "L'année prochaine" is femenine in the example:
L'année prochaine, il commence l'université.
2Tu ________ demeuré immobile tout le long.You remained still all the way.esas
He had 83 years (he died at 83 years old).
One of the sentences for translation would not play so I had to leave it blank and continue.
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