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.
Can I make a suggestion that Chris' more detailed definition (copied below) of what the verb sentir means (and ressentir) be added to the A2 lesson about sentir vs reflexive sentir.
It is confusing when sentir is used in quiz questions in a way that hasn't yet been fully explained. Currently the description/definition at this level doesn't explain that sentir can also refer to other concrete physical feelings (via the senses) - not just smell. And the use of this definition of 'feeling' is not differentiated clearly enough from 'emotional' feeling - thus creating confusion. A reference to the existence of ressentir would also be useful for us newbies too.
ChrisC1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributorSentir can mean the action of smelling and to feel in a concrete way, trough your senses, or your current emotional/physical status.
Tu sens la rose, tu sens bon, je me sens fatigué, je me sens heureux.
Ressentir is to feel but in an abstract way : a sentiment, an emotion, something that involves less your actual senses. It’s especially true for love : you would never say you would “sentir” love.
It usually is followed by a noun : je ressens de la fierté, je ressens du bonheur.... car le bureau de poste local n'offrait plus ce service.
In this section of the sentence the 'S' at the end of 'pluS' is pronounced. This seems at odds with the lesson 'Ne ... plus = no more/no longer' which states: -
Note that when plus has a negative meaning (no more), you don't pronounce the final 's', except when you do the liaison with a vowel following ('z' sound).
... in the exercise plus is followed by 'ce' and 'ce' does not start with a vowel and as such should not be pronounced?
Does the phrase …..(aller) mieux que…” introduce the subjunctive mood?
The sentence starting with -
Oui, le buffet est ouvert -
Do you not pronounce the second syllable of buffet?
Why does this sentence change to the vous form of you?
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.
I have seen the phrase avoir à a couple times, and I was wondering how it differs from il faut and devoir - is it a less formal version of both of them, a more informal iteration of only one, or is it a completely different idea that it expresses
Hello I have difficulty understanding this phrase from a podcast. Does it mean it changed a week ago?
There should have been included in the vocabulary list additional words including
the Halloween characters. These are words that are not part of daily speech.
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