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In the lesson about dimensions, you say "Note that in this case the adjectives haut/long/large/profond agree in gender and number with the subject they refer to."
But you only give a gender agreement example for "profond". Do "haut" or "long " or "large" change spelling with gender?
Bonjour! I am perplexed, in the following sentence "On se disait pas le temps, pas envie, pas longtemps" Is "se" functioning as a direct or indirect object? I am thinking direct "We told ourselves"...?
why is verb avons montrés not avons montré?
Initially I was a bit confused,
This video helped clear things up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBYVpekmtLI
Is this tense more commonly used in French than in English? I hardly ever speak like this in English and I find it to be a strange tense to learn since it doesn't seem likely that we learners will be reminiscing in French. That seems to be it's only use.
Example:
Protège d'une muraille épaisse and not
Par une muraille épaisse
I did have to look this one up! But for anyone else who was wondering, "sans chocolat" is absolutely correct. I had thought it would be "sans le chocolat."
Hi
The English translation of the sentence "Le jour suivant, Ali Baba retourna à la grotte" is Ali Baba returned to the cave the following day. I don't understand why you used future simple instead of passe compose? Thank you.
I cannot understand at all what the difference is between the phrases below using plaire. It seems to me both are possible but only one is correct according to Kwiziq:
Ce restaurant nous plait vs Ce restaurant plait a nous
Please forgive the lack of accents
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