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Why is there a 'le' between 'tu' and veuilles in this sentence 'C'est comme ça, que tu le veuilles ou pas' instead of just que tu veuilles.
In the following example, I am struggling to understand why we must use la and not lui? To me, it sounds like the sentence requires an indirect object pronoun, because the question "What" is not answered in response to the "must", which is the verb in this sentence. I use the "what" test to determine if there is a direct object in the sentence. With this sentence, should I consider "what must they warn" as my question, or "what must they do". Apologies if my line of thought is completely skewed but it seems to work in most cases.
Does Julie know? We must warn her ,
- Julie est au courant ? Il faut lui prévenir,- Julie est au courant ? Il faut la prévenir,Pourquoi manque-t-il l’article au nom de Haïti ?
Est-ce
'sur le plancher' remplace 'sur le sol / par terre' ?
plancher ça veut dire floor????
Merci
La réponse à la question deux est "Il y a au moins 1 200 variétés de fromage en France". Mais, en 1962, Charles de Gaulle a dit "Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage?".
Pourriez-vous expliquer l'écart entre 246 variétés de fromage et 1 200 variétés de fromage, s'il vous plaît? A moins que la France n'ait développé 954 nouvelles variétés de fromages depuis 1962, la différence réside, vraisemblablement, dans la définition de "variété".
Why is it 'Elle me rappelle Paula' rather than 'elle rappelle Paula à moi' ?
Could you provide additional explanation for this: When the time expressed uses hour numbers above 12 (in the "24-hour clock" -> 13h, 14h...), you use instead quinze, trente, quarante-cinq, probably for pronunciation (and elegance) .
I am having a hard time understanding these translations in the examples of a 24 hour clock.
Il est seize heures quinze.It is quarter past four PM.Il est quinze heures trente.It is three-thirty PM.Il est dix-neuf heures quarante-cinq.It's quarter to eight PM.Once I’ve used ‘demi ’ when ‘moitié’ was the right answer and once I used ‘moitié’ when ‘demi’ was the right answer. The explanations given for appropriate usage still aren’t doing it for me.
Est-ce que bande-dessinée veut dire "comic strip," et roman illustré veut dire "graphic novel?"
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