Bob est réveilléWrite "Bob is woken up by the alarm clock every day." : Bob ________ le réveil tous les jours.
The correct answer is "Bob est réveillé par le réveil tous les jours.
I get that the alarm clock is the subject, that Bob is the object, so the sentence is in the passive voice. What confuses me is "est réveillé." What tense is that? Since it is habitual, I think of l'imparfait ("réveillait"). Then "est reveillé" seems like passé composé, with an auxilliare followed by the participe passé, but avoir is the auxilliare for réveiller, not être. Word Reference shows reveillé as an adjective, but it seems like a verb as it is used in this sentence.
I'm sure as soon as I hit "Ask Question" the answer will be blindingly obvious to me, but in case that doesn't happen, could someone clear this up? Thanks!
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One of the question as they have a car, is it 'Ils ont une voiture' or Ils a une voiture'?
He does not say 'installent DES projecteurs et DES caméras' as I would have expected. Is what he says an acceptable grammatical alternative?
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uuuuhh..... Where's the transcript, all I have is audio?
I've keyed the below sentence into google.
As the subject is the 'same person' in both parts of the sentence, is the translation wrong?
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"I do it so that I look beautiful" ... "Je le fais pour que je sois belle."
It's great that Christmas gets a mention in this lesson. However, in the 500+ tests I've done I don't remember a single question mentioning Christmas. There have been questions mentioning Aid, a fair few mentioning Hanukkah and loads mentioning Thanksgiving. Please add a few questions involving Christmas! I believe it's considered rather an important festival in the USA, as well as the UK and elsewhere.
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Merci
Bonjour,
Just want to ask why there is "le" in this sentence. It translates to english as we can if we want to, so why the le?
Merci :)
Shouldn’t it be
On est parti tôt??
Write "Bob is woken up by the alarm clock every day." : Bob ________ le réveil tous les jours.
The correct answer is "Bob est réveillé par le réveil tous les jours.
I get that the alarm clock is the subject, that Bob is the object, so the sentence is in the passive voice. What confuses me is "est réveillé." What tense is that? Since it is habitual, I think of l'imparfait ("réveillait"). Then "est reveillé" seems like passé composé, with an auxilliare followed by the participe passé, but avoir is the auxilliare for réveiller, not être. Word Reference shows reveillé as an adjective, but it seems like a verb as it is used in this sentence.
I'm sure as soon as I hit "Ask Question" the answer will be blindingly obvious to me, but in case that doesn't happen, could someone clear this up? Thanks!
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