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The lesson doesn't say if it's okay to replace the pronouns un & autre with subject nouns. E.g for: 'Neither Julien nor Sophie can come.' can you say 1) 'Ni Julien ni Sophie ne peuvent venir.' ? or do you have to say 2)'Julien et Sophie ne peuvent venir, ni l'un ni l'autre' or how about 3) 'Ils ne peuvent venir, ni Julien ni Sophie.' ? Or are all three okay?
I think there is a mistake made regarding 'ces 'which is translated as those and not these.
One of the quizzes has a sentence: La Castafiore faints (s'évanouir) all the time.
This question is totally unrelated to reflexive verbs, but I can't figure out what La Castafiore is. Can you give a little history on this noun, please? I enjoy picking up a little non-grammar knowledge from time to time. Thanks.
Is "Il faut payer ..." a possibility here?
quick question: in French you say "ce sont NOS livres". Why is le pluriel of "le nôtre", written as "les nôtres" in this lesson?!
the 4 min video with Jennifer states "Use il est with an adjective".
It completley ignores the other 50% of the rule, when you use C'est with an adjective
Why does one say "j'ai arrêté de parler" and not "je me suis arrêté de parler"?
arrêter is a transitive verb and thus to my understanding takes an object but the verb parler can not be an object in the example above. So how do I know what one to use.
I understand "des escargots" but then why is it "les vins" ? He tasted [some] snails... we drank [all the] wine?
Reverso context gives several examples of passer being used to mean to pass an exam.
What am I missing????
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