Convenir dual conjugationFor some verbs like passer, monter etc there's a rule:
When a verb is followed immediately by a noun (as opposed to a preposition), it uses avoir as the auxiliary, like most verbs.
But in the book « Les verbes et leurs prépositions » (by Jean-Michel Robert, Isabelle Chollet) there's a note for the verb convenir:
Le verbe convenir se conjugue avec l’auxiliaire avoir lorsqu’il a le sens de « plaire, être approprié à », avec l’auxiliaire être lorsqu’il signifie « décider ensemble ».
So I'm confused. What would be the right choice in the following case?
1. La date que vous m’aviez proposée ne m’a pas convenu.
2. La date que vous m’aviez proposée ne m’est pas convenue.
From the one side, here convenir means « plaire, être approprié à », therefore it shoud be conjugated with avoir.
From the other side, there's no COD here: "La date" is the subject and "me" is COI, so être should be used.
can you ever use 'depuis' without que, ot only if it relates to time... depuis ce matin, il pleut?
In translating the second sentence, "Of course Aline. In 1983, we witnessed Yannick Noah's triumph on live TV...", there is no mention of Roland Garros. I believe that a hint would have been in order.
For some verbs like passer, monter etc there's a rule:
When a verb is followed immediately by a noun (as opposed to a preposition), it uses avoir as the auxiliary, like most verbs.
But in the book « Les verbes et leurs prépositions » (by Jean-Michel Robert, Isabelle Chollet) there's a note for the verb convenir:
Le verbe convenir se conjugue avec l’auxiliaire avoir lorsqu’il a le sens de « plaire, être approprié à », avec l’auxiliaire être lorsqu’il signifie « décider ensemble ».
So I'm confused. What would be the right choice in the following case?
1. La date que vous m’aviez proposée ne m’a pas convenu.
2. La date que vous m’aviez proposée ne m’est pas convenue.
From the one side, here convenir means « plaire, être approprié à », therefore it shoud be conjugated with avoir.
From the other side, there's no COD here: "La date" is the subject and "me" is COI, so être should be used.
Why is it 'le jeudi' not just 'jeud'i?
We are talking about a particular Thursday here...
Please help me. I need it a lot!
In this text, I'm not convinced une restoration is a real French word. Is this a typo ? It's not in 3 dictionaries I've checked.
Shouldn't it be restauration ? If I am correct, please can it be corrected ?
thanks
Paul.
When do I use j'ai or je suis because they both mean the same thing so I don't know when's the time to use which I have
I'm a bit cross that that wasn't in the vocabulary to look up at the beginning. Absolutely no way that an English speaker is going to realise that that is the french term for a conversion! The result was, that I was trying to find some meaning concerning his transforming the game, and completely missed the word "essai"......
À part ça, c'était une super dictée ! :)
Rather than just accessing LF on my computer, is a mobile application available? I didn't find it in the Apple store.
Merci.
In "la surprise n'en sera que plus grande" why "n'en sera que" rather than "ne sera que"? The lesson says en can replace the preceding de+phrase but I cannot see de+phrase.
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