Imparfait on Saturday, but Passé Composé on Sunday?Ok, Team Kwiziq. Au secours! À l'aide!
"Samedi dernier, il y avait du brouillard et il faisait froid et humide."
- We're describing the weather, setting up the condition. Ergo: l'imparfait seems the perfect tense here.
"Dimanche, il a fait moins froid mais il a plu toute la journée."
- In context, we're implying the day following "samedi dernier," still describing the weather, setting up the condition, so why do we jump to the passé composé? It makes sense to me to use it the sentence "Mon frère et moi sommes sortis dans le jardin pour ramasser des escargots," as it happened on that particular Sunday, doesn't feel habitual, doesn't feel like it was on ongoing event...
Nonetheless why not "Dimanche, il faisait moins froid mais il pleuvait toute la journée." Or even better, "Dimanche, il faisait moins froid mais il a plu toute la journée." ???
Bonjour
In the fill in the blanks exercise working futur proche
1. je vais retrouver Julien et Sophie dans le centre-ville.
Why is: je vais rencontrer incorrect?
2. When I read in English will be I wrote sera. I should have known better because what is being tested is futur proche and va etre should have been my response; but I would like to know if it could be considered correct, understandable, from a native speakers standpoint.
Merci
The lesson notes an exception for naître (correctly) and for apparaître. It does not clearly state the exception for apparaître - although I note in discussion it has been mentioned it is because it also conjugates with être in passé composé. As I understand it, and checking other verb conjugation sites, this is correct but not what is shown on the verb conjugation site of Lawless French https://www.lawlessfrench.com/verb-conjugations/apparaitre/
In one of the answers to a test it says
Est-ce ta trousse? - Oui, c'est la mienne.Is this your pencil case? - Yes, this is mine.
Going by this lesson here, would it be correct to say
Est-ce ta trousse? - Oui, elle est la mienne.Is this your pencil case? - Yes, it is mine.
The difference being between THIS and IT.
For those interested (and who couldn't find the word "tramontagne" anywhere), here is a definition for a similarly spelled word that I found : "La tramontane est un vent violent, froid (en température ressentie) et sec en provenance du nord-ouest qui souffle contre les Pyrénées et au sud du Massif central, puis dans le Languedoc et le Roussillon. ... Le terme de « tramontane » vient du latin transmontanus qui signifie « au-delà des monts »". So it's similar to the Mistral wind (also mentioned in the same sentence in the exercise), with the Mistral being maybe a bit more localised and severe.
I know this is a grammar issue, but I need help.
in the phrase “an endless adventure she couldn’t resist” is translated to
”une aventure sans fin à laquelle elle ne pouvait pas résister”.
Why is “qui” wrong (my answer) and “à laquelle” correct?
Judy
The last sentence again: and by midday, we were able to go outside......
was translated as: et avant midi, nous avons pu sortir......
Doesn't 'avant midi' mean before noon? I put d'ici midi and was marked incorrect.
Ok, Team Kwiziq. Au secours! À l'aide!
"Samedi dernier, il y avait du brouillard et il faisait froid et humide."
- We're describing the weather, setting up the condition. Ergo: l'imparfait seems the perfect tense here.
"Dimanche, il a fait moins froid mais il a plu toute la journée."
- In context, we're implying the day following "samedi dernier," still describing the weather, setting up the condition, so why do we jump to the passé composé? It makes sense to me to use it the sentence "Mon frère et moi sommes sortis dans le jardin pour ramasser des escargots," as it happened on that particular Sunday, doesn't feel habitual, doesn't feel like it was on ongoing event...
Nonetheless why not "Dimanche, il faisait moins froid mais il pleuvait toute la journée." Or even better, "Dimanche, il faisait moins froid mais il a plu toute la journée." ???
I thought "ignorer" was one of those false friends and actually meant "not to know" rather than "ignore".
Can you clarify? Thanks.
Ex. from above: Ils ont réussi à la convaincre. Subject They/verb succeeded - requires preposition à before infinitive verb convaincre to convince?
I am wondering why "la" direct object is used here instead of "lui" please? Merci!
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