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.
What is wrong with saying "j’ai trouvé le livre d'enfants"?
Please help me. I need it a lot!
can you ever use 'depuis' without que, ot only if it relates to time... depuis ce matin, il pleut?
Rather than just accessing LF on my computer, is a mobile application available? I didn't find it in the Apple store.
Merci.
I'm a bit cross that that wasn't in the vocabulary to look up at the beginning. Absolutely no way that an English speaker is going to realise that that is the french term for a conversion! The result was, that I was trying to find some meaning concerning his transforming the game, and completely missed the word "essai"......
À part ça, c'était une super dictée ! :)
Hi, should “et il faudra que vous vérifiez leurs conditions” in fact be “et il faudra que vous vérifiiez leurs conditions” as vérifier is in the subjunctive?
Why is it faire de l’Akido and not du?
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.
When do I use j'ai or je suis because they both mean the same thing so I don't know when's the time to use which I have
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