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In a French blog that I was reading, I came across a lot of "qu'apprendre". For example, "beaucoup de Français pensent qu'apprendre un langue..." or "beaucoup de Français trouvent qu'apprendre l'anglais..." or even "études ont monté qu'apprendre une langue étrangère" - so I assumed that if "que + verb" then the verb would be in the infinitive. But I could not find this confirmed by lawlessfrench.com. Could someone clarify if que + verb require the infinitive?
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Ma femme viendra nous rejoindre après avoir couché le bébé.
My wife will come and join us after putting the baby to sleep.
(HINT: Use 'coucher' (to put to bed))
I put:
Ma femme viendra nous rejoindre après être couché le bébé.
I thought coucher takes être as its auxiliary. Does that only apply when its reflexive? Or is there some other problem?
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