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Why is 1/3 not un troisième? If 1/5 is un cinquième?
Just when I thought I had all this sorted ! In an English novel about a house in France, there are two old derelict buildings one formerly housed pigs and the other was formerly used for making bread. They nick named the first one la maison de cochons and the other la maison du pain. Why the de / du and not just de for both since they are just names ?
In this lesson there is an example of passer in passé compose using être:
Ma tante est passée par la boulangerie...
and using avoir:
Nous avons passé une bonne semaine...
I can't see an explanation for this and I'm confused
John
I found this lesson really confusing.
You say derrivatives of paraître, but how am I to know that appraître isnt a derrivative?
The lesson gives the example "Elle me rappelle de Paula" to illustrate that it is not correct to use "de" in sentences like this. But I just encountered a quiz question about the imperfect with reflexive verbs in which the correct answer was "Tu te rappelais de moi." Why is "de moi" correct, but "de Paula" is not?
The use of partitive vs definite articles continues to be confusing to me, such as in this phrase in the second to last paragraph, "Un lien d'avenir, grâce à l'engagement ". It is translated as, "A link to the future, thanks to the commitment," . Why is d'avenir used and not à l'avenir? And why à l'engagement and not d'engagement?
Hi, in “Et pour le maquillage, j'ai opté pour un ombré bleu nuit” should it be ombre instead of ombré? The reason I think this is that ombre seems to be a noun, whereas ombré is an adjective.
In my quiz I have a question:
Which of the following are correct?
la sœur
l'oncle
le écharpe
l'souris
And this lesson is mentioned as "explain this". Whilst the lesson really explains usage of le / la, in this case it does not make any sense because I previous lessons did not have either of those four words, so a student just doesn't know what those words mean.
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