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By the time you were ready, the bus was already gone.
The given answer is: Le temps que tu sois prête, le bus était déjà parti.
But both clauses of his sentence seem to be in the past, so is it okay (even better) to write:
Le temps que tu aies été prête, le bus était déjà parti. ?
same problem, cant retake the quiz, very annoying
Bonjour! Je m'appelle Linh et je viens d'Hanoi en Le Vietnam.
In my dictionary, the verb, sail, is translated as "naviguer" or "faire de la voile". The latter, which I used in the first sentence, was accepted. I believe that "faire de la voile" was not accepted in the second sentence nor in the last sentence of this exercise. Is there a distinction that I am missing or is it just a question of the use of variation in this paragraph?
position of prochain relative to nouns
In the quiz it gave this translation of the English : 'Ils n'ont plus de vin" but I would have translated this as 'they don't have any more wine', which is quite different in meaning in English. Would my version be incorrect? If so how would I say that in French? Merci!
I wrote ´nous nous sommes brossés les cheveux’, which was marked as only partially correct. It should have been ´brossé’. I don’t understand why the ´s’ shouldn’t be there. Agreement with ‘nous’.
Can anyone help, please?
Mélanie joue plus que Karine aux cartes. which is marked wrong seems to me to be just an inversion of Melanie joue aux cartes plus que Karine which is correct. Is this just one of those things the French dont do, or is there an underlying reason why the first version is wrong, please?
Title. Trying to figure out if you must have the "ce" or if there are situations where it is not present.
J'aime quand vous riez... I like it when you laugh.
Why is this not je l'aime quand vous riez
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