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I didn't finish this exercise the first time round. I've come back to it - a long time later - but unfortunately it doesn't remind me which words/phrases to look up in advance, so had to guess all of them! Please could you do a reminder for when this happens?
I tend to get tangled up with possessive "de" but wanted to query why the two capitalised nouns above take de l’ rather than d’? The dog is best friend of "Man" not "a man", and capitalising both nouns implies to me a generalisation or personification: despite that, they don’t seem to be treated as proper nouns in French.
What are the situations in which we add « de » like this? Is it a general rule for talking about rates?
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What is the meaning of half-sister and half-brother in English ?
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Vidhi
Why is Marseille est la deuxième plus grande ville de France not written as Marseille est la deuxième la plus grande ville de France? Shouldn't it be la plus grande
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Would you kindly explain the "en ferait rougir plus d'un"? I am not sure what the speaker is saying about Damien. Is she implying that Damien has a way on making someone blush (with embarrassment perhaps)?
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Cette chanson me rappelle le film 'Etre et avoir'. Bien pour la rentree aussi. Merci!
How to make sure your translations are correct in English to French
My question concerns the imparfait conjugation of the verb 'exister' in the sentence:
Aussi, lorsque j'ai appris qu'il existait un musée qui...
I would like to know if conjugating here in the imparfait (existait) does not imply that the museum used to exist, but no longer does. I am inclined to want to conjugate 'exister' in present tense to get around this problem, yet I know its gramatically incorrect to do so. If someone can help, I would greatly appreciate.
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