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J'ai lu trois livres dont les tiens/ les vôtres. [I read 3 books including yours.]
Is this correct? Or should it be le tien? Masculine/plural form should be used because the noun is 'les livres'?
Does avoir besoin de ever become avoir besoin des or du?
Write sentences of se laver in futur simple
So am I to assume that all pasta dishes [spaghetti has come up in other exercises] are considered countable and thus the "des", while bread is uncountable and thus the "du"?
"Allez-vous au cinéma ce soir" means:
Go to the cinema tonight!
Are you going to the cinema tonight?
To go with you to the cinema
In the sentence "il suffit d’observer ce que font les autres et les imiter," why have the verb (font) and the subject (les autres) swapped places? Shouldn't it be "il suffit d’observer ce que les autres font et les imiter"?
The sentence is taken from this text: "https://www.lawlessfrench.com/listening/bise-a-la-francaise/"
Thank you in advance.
Another who has fallen foul of the "Nous nous sommes brossé les cheveux" question. Please add the exception to the lesson.
Is it wrong to say "ils n'ont fait rien" instead of "ils n'ont rien fait"
C'est la plus rapide voiture du monde.
C'est la voiture la plus rapide du monde.
I answered with the second one, and after much thought, not the first. I asked a french speaking friend and she said the first sounded odd and she would not use it, although she didn't think it was wrong. Can you provide some guidelines?
Thanks
Why not "etait ajoutee"
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