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I wrote "Oui, on a papoté pendant une heure." instead of "Oui, on a discuté/bavardé pendant une heure." It marked it as incorrect. I think bavardé is closer than discuté for 'chatted', but I feel like 'papoté' suits well for the context. Am I wrong?
Bonjour,
I recently did an exercise where I learnt about when colour adjectives stay the same in French, e.g. "When the colour is described by a phrase containing two or more words". The phrase was "la veste bleu canard".
Here though the word "blanches" does agree with "pages" and "alternées", which I thought were the words "blanches" is describing.
I would just like to know the reason for the agreement in that phrase.
Merci :)
In the next to last sentence would it be more polite to ask "Je vous devrais combien?" instead of "je vous dois...."
I know it is only correct to say Je vain manger à huit heures. However, in response to À quelle heure ?, I've seen the phrase At nine o'clock written as both À neuf heures and A neuf heures. Are both A and À correct to use in this instance?
We were asked to translate "around the globe." The answer was given as "du monde entier." Why not "autour du globe"?
The lesson says:
Conjugations of APPARAÎTRE (to appear) in Le Passé
Composé (Indicatif) in French
j'/je
suis apparu(e)
tu
es apparu(e)
il / elle / on
est apparu(e)(s)
nous
sommes apparu(e)s
In the exercise "I don't know this author" English present tense, is translated as "je ne connaissais pas" French Imparfait? Is that correct?
Any reason why we use restait allongées à as opposed to s'allongeait à ?
I wrote : C'est là qu'elle aimait étendre sa couverture sur laquelle elle s'allongeait à rêvasser pendant des heures, but its not in the answers.
On a writing exercise (Cette Semaine) was asked to translate : On Monday, I went shopping with my son. My response - Lundi, j'ai fait les magasins avec mon fils. It didn’t match answers given - Lundi, je suis allé faire les magasins avec mon fils. Is there anything wrong with my answer? Went shopping is translated similarly here.
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