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Is there a difference in meaning between "il devait faire qqc" and "il aurait dû faire qqc"?  

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

Pourquoi la phrase avec des cocotiers manque t-Elle les partitifs (avec des cocotiers, du sable), or is it because it is like a dream 'aah, cocotiers, sable banc, cocktails

Why do we use j'ai toujours eu for "I have always had"?  My understanding is the passe' compose' of avoir implies "I got" more than "I had".  If we want to say "I had" we should use j'avais.  

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Hello,

Why is it not 'tu n'as pas de clope?'

I thought we used a partitive article rather than a definite article when doing negations? So, in this case, de vs. une.

In today's quiz all the content was in English! I am already an Anglophone...

Was that a glitch, was there an English/French toggle I didn't see or what?

In a previous lesson, J’allais + infinitive = was going to _ . This example that is captioned, is translated as ‘ I was enrolling at university’ instead of ‘I was going to enroll’. 

J’ai besoin d’écouter la phrase au moins deux ou trois fois, mais le buton ne fonctionne après  s je me sens frustré , eulement un ou deux fois . Je me sens frustré

1) Surely glacier should be an acceptable translation for ice cream parlour?

2) I'm struggling with the use of à rather than de for the ice cream scoops.  A scoop of vanilla ice cream would be une boule de glace à la vanille, but in removing the word glace, I'd think you'd be left with une boule de vanille.  

Merci.