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why do we not say:-
L'année prochaine, il commencera à l'université
Can you explain when the verb s'installer can be used? Is it just an alternative for s'asseoir or does it have more meanings?
In my A0 entry test, there was a question to see if "un canapé rectangulaire" is correct or not. The answer was not but I wonder why?
I have encountered this acronym a few times in the Q&A Forums, for example: 'Only if the COD appears before the past participle ...' I have also searched the wonderful KWIZIQ site without success. Can someone tell me what COD means?
This kind of structure seemed a bit strange to me. When we say "Je me lave", it is like "I wash myself" and it's easy to compherend the existence of reflexive pronoun(me) there. But in this case; it's not easy.
So, my first question: Why do we double the pronouns?
Second question:
"Je les lave tous les jours." "Tu les brosses tous les soirs"
Are these sentences unacceptible or grammatically false?
In the writing challenge "Les noces d'or de mes grands-parents" the phrase "Et ce qu'ils se sont déclaré était tellement émouvant" appears. Why is there no plural agreement on the verb "déclaré "?
It sees to be the same case as this example in the lesson "Conjugate reflexive verbs (+être) in Le Passé Composé (conversational past)":
Elles se sont disputées = They had an argument.
Is it because the verb has an object which precedes it and the rule of agreement with a prior object takes precedence over the rule of agreement with the subject?
Something like case 3 1/2 here:https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/agreement-with-pronominal-verbs/
In the example when it says il pense à elle and it means he’s thinking of her. But in another example it says je parle de lui which means I speak of him. So de and à both mean of in these examples so I will as wondering when I would use à and when I would use de.
Does Tout ce dont also have the same meanings - [everything that/ all that], or is there any additional meaning to it?? Please confirm. Also a few examples would be great.
'anything that' is also an additional meaning?
(of course that the context will differ with the inclusion of de in 'tout ce dont', than 'tout ce qui' and 'tout ce que')
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