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How in the world is this translated "She needs a car" when "Il lui faut" is "HE needs"?!
Why is it not "doucemment" with a double "m"?
Why do we use the definitive article (les) and then the indefinitive/ partitive article?
De plus, depuis 1992, les citoyens françaises sont aussi des citoyens européens et ils peuvent voter aux élections européennes.
Why is this translated as 'C'est une vraie... ' and not 'Elle est une vraie...' as we are talking about her specifically and not just the concept?
I was wondering why "d’où le fait que" triggers the subjunctive here, when it’s describing an established fact?
Why are there 9 different types of past tense? NINE?! 🤯 Will even a native speaker really use all those? I give up lol
Hi,
How often can I take the quiz of the topics in my notebook and how long do I have to wait after first attempt to do it again please? thank you.
In the exercise about the new green car with the brown leather seats, one alternate answer was ‘Ils sont fait en cuir.’ The best answer was ‘Il sont en cuir’. Present tense. Was the alternate answer in passe compose? If so, wouldn’t that be ‘ils ont fait en cuir?’
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.
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