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The lesson says "Note that while the forms de hauteur, de longueur, de largeur can also be used (though less commonly), you can NEVER say de profond."
Surely it would make more sense to say "Note that while the forms de haut, de long, de large are more common than de hauteur, de longueur, de largeur, you can NEVER say de profond."
Would "À bientôt !" be an acceptable answer?
Some advice please on when to use vouloir in the present versus the conditional for "I want". In English, insofar as I know, we don't distinguish between "I want" and "I would like". On second though, perhaps "I want" expresses a slightly stronger desire.
Not exactly related to the lesson but one of my quizzes had the sentence: “Je mangeais une nourriture très riche.”
I’m wondering why “une” was used here and not the partitive article “de la”, especially since it’s an unquantified amount of food? This was confusing to me.
Can anyone explain to me the difference between rien and aucun?Thanks
The recommended translation for 'tiny hairy faces seemed worried' is 'de minuscules visages hirsutes avaient l'air inquiet' - inquiet agreeing with air rather than the subject visages.
Is it not also an option that it agree with visages?
I am looking in Larousse which says that the adjective following air agrees with the subject of the sentence if that subject is a thing and, often, with the subject if it is a person ('Elle a l'air sérieuse').
Couple of queries:-
In the sentence ' As I grew up, it was her melancholy ...' the advice is to use c'est. Why not c'était?
and,
In the sentence 'Barbara, as you used to sing (it) so perfectly, our most beautiful love story will always be you., the 'it' refers to the 'love story' which is feminine so 'comme tu le chantais' should be 'la'?
Thanks
The speech for "parmi lesquelles un quiz de l'année qui vient de s'écouler, " is extremely unclear, and I was unable to figure it out. I played it to someone who is a native French speaker, and she couldn't figure it out either. It's the "quiz de l'année" part that is really bad.
I don't have the best ears, but I do not hear beaucoup after t-shirt. I hear "au contre" instead.
I used the subjunctive for the following:
La vue .... était la plus belle que j'aie jamais vue...... (subjective attitude?)
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