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Why is laisser included in the following? : -
ATTENTION:Verbs in -ETTER, -ELLER and -E(xx)ER (errer, blesser, laisser etc.) are not included in this rule: they follow the regular pattern.
When I was young... I use etais but to say he was promoted you don't say il etait promu but il a ete promu and I don't understand why you use this and not the imperfect. Please explain! I can't add accents on this so forgive me they are missing
could you please explain why des. Is this because there is a plural form??
Why is this in the past tense? I thought it was ongoing and background information, and so used imparfait (which was incorrect). Thanks in advance.
Quelle chanson sucrée! :)
Pouquoi le mot "regorgeant" ne s'accorde pas avec le nom féminin "la carte"? J'ai écrit : "de la carte regorgeante de plats".
Can we say that if même precedes the noun, it means "same" and if it comes after the noun, it means "very/itself"?
Hi,
how do we know when a nationality used in a sentence is an adjective or a noun?
thank you
idioms confound me ... "on the edge" of town is different than of a cliff ... what is the idiom for "on the edge of my seat" or almost being driven crazy as saying "he's really on edge" ? maybe an "edgy" lesson?
The translation -' you went back to your childhood house' is not something we would say in english english. We would either say 'childhood home' or ' the house I lived in in my childhood'. I'm trying to work out why this is and it has something to do with the word childhood as an abstract noun. Childhood is never an adjective. ' Childhood home' is a kind of double noun, an inversion of 'home of my childhood' . I'm afraid I'm not a linguist so dont have the grammar to describe this. I just know it sounds very odd, and feels wrong.
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