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Are both of them correct and both can be used equally?
- Je me suis arrêtée d’aller à la salle de sport.
- J'ai arrêté d'aller à la salle de sport.
[I stopped going to the gym.]
J'arrivai [ʒaʁive] et J'arrivais [ʒaʁivɛ] Ci-dessus: "The tricky part here is that the je form (j'arrivai) has the same pronunciation as the L'imparfait indicatif form J'arrivais. Mais on nous a appris à l'école que c'était:
J’ai traduit le mot, ’squint’, par ’loucher’ au lieu de ’plisser les yeux’. Le dictionnaire cite tous les deux comme acceptable, mais l’exercice accepte seulement le deuxième. Pourquoi ?
Sorry to open this one up again !
But why not translate as:
"Cécile va et prend..." ?
Bonjour,
I am A2 level and would like to know what online resource I should use to reference words and phrases in french.
Merci
JoAnn
Why does this sentence change to the vous form of you?
In the phrase, "et je passerai le reste de ma vie à faire tout mon possible", instead of 'ma vie', I'm pretty sure he's saying 'la vie'.
The translation is "so you can try it" where is the "it"?
In the exercise "The Town of Gruyères", the translation of "Before we even entered the picturesque village," is given as "Avant même que nous entrions dans le bourg/village pittoresque,". I think it should be 'nous sommes entrés dans ...'. What am I getting wrong there? Also, I'm aking my self, does an optional 'ne explétif' go before 'entrions'?
Would it be correct to use the three-layer structure I wrote down below, when building sentences with double pronouns? Imagine it like a matrix with three columns:
ME, TE, SE, NOUS, VOUS | LE, LA, LES | LUI, LEUR
Ex Nous vous | les envoyons demain. | e_m_p_t_y
Ex e_m_p_t_y | Je la | leur explique clairement.
Ex Je vous | la donne. | e_m_p_t_y
Ex e_m_p_t_y | Je la | lui donne.
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