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Are all verbs strictly reflexive verbs or can they sometimes not be reflexive
1) Surely glacier should be an acceptable translation for ice cream parlour?
2) I'm struggling with the use of à rather than de for the ice cream scoops. A scoop of vanilla ice cream would be une boule de glace à la vanille, but in removing the word glace, I'd think you'd be left with une boule de vanille.
Merci.
I thought this was "je recommanderais" - "which I would recommend" - rather than "which I will recommend".
Two questions:
1) In this context, would the French always say "I will recommend" rather than " I would recommend"?
2) If not, is there any way of detecting the difference, aurally, between first person in the future and in the conditional ?
In the sentence 'when France won the World Cup ' I used remporté instead of 'gagné' but it remporté wasn't given as an option. Is there a subtle difference in their respective meanings?
How can "Ils partent leur travail à 17 h" be wrong and only "Ils quittent leur travail à 17 h" be right? I don't see a specific rule as this type of question was used for both parter and quitter.
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Why is it not 'tu n'as pas de clope?'
I thought we used a partitive article rather than a definite article when doing negations? So, in this case, de vs. une.
Why was the subjunctive used for « réunisse » in the first part of the sentence but not for « prend » for the second part?
« Mais ce qui me touche le plus est le fait qu'on se réunisse tous en famille et que chaque invité prend le temps de choisir un cadeau. »All three sample sentences for this usage seem freighted with disappointed expectations! Is this the way it’s normally used or just a coincidence?
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