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I’ve been studying French church architecture this week and had thought I understood that the saint themself is written with no hyphen, but if their name is used for a road, church, town etc, it becomes hyphenated. For example, Saint Denis for the person and Saint-Denis for the basilica or commune. So I was surprised in this exercise to see the archangel spelt Saint-Michel.
I also noticed that sauvé and sauvée are both accepted for Orléans - presume either is ok here?
I wouldn't think that this is necessarily reflexive, not without context.
If we are talking about her teeth, for example, then yes it is reflexive; but what if she were brushing horses, for example, or perhaps her children's teeth? Would not "Elles les brosse." then be correct?
What pronoun could work for a mixture of life genders as a collective pronoun :They(John and Mary) are eating.
I think in the second section of this lesson which is great on its own, more auxiliary être verbs could've been used besides aller.
is this the same for all future tenses?
for example jouer - becomes je jouerai so you dont pronounce the e after this i either?
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.
Instead of "Benjamin veut être bilingue un jour" I tried "Benjamin a envie d'être bilingue un jour."
This sounds correct to me, but it was not offered as altenative.
What do you think?
How in the world is this translated "She needs a car" when "Il lui faut" is "HE needs"?!
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