"les puissants lobbies" ou "les lobbies puissants"A general question rather than a specific one, though this is an example. The lessons, as I understand them, teach that short, and some common adjectives go before the nouns, but otherwise (unless for particular stress) most adjectives go after the noun.
However, I have noticed that often these rules don't seem to apply. Puissant is neither short (in my mind one syllable), or common. However the text above places it before, but after is acceptable as well when the exercise is marked.
I have noticed this many times in doing the exercises. As a consequence, I am confused.
If the simple answer is that "short" means 2 syllables, I will be content.
I am doing B1 French and reading Camus La Peste( hard going sometimes) On page 173 he says"elles suffirent" which I take to mean they were enough,and I struggled with the conjugation but I found it as passive simple on the Lawless website. I interrogated Gemini AI and it suggested that passive simple is a compound tense requiring auxiliary from etre...despite its name. It also suggested Camus often used passe simple in a stylistic for without the auxiliary. So,is the Lawless conjugation right,and is elles suffirent passe simple, and please,what is going on?
I translated this as 'Il était incroyable hier' - but it was marked wrong, citing the correct answer as, 'Il a été hier' why? Even when I put it into a translator it says it should be était. What am I missing?
Bonjour. Dans les propositions sans verbe, comment s'appelle le rôle de pronom tonique ? Par exemple :
" — Qui pourra le faire ? — Moi. "
" — Moi. " est la proposition qui ne contient qu'un mot, mais c'est quand même la proposition, n'est-ce pas ? Donc, est-ce le sujet ou comment ça s'appelle dans ce cas ?
Pardonnez mon français.
Beaucoup d’expressions et de pensées utiles rassemblées de manière à m’aider à me souvenir comment les écrire. Merci !
I know that typically, retourner is used to mean "to go back" and rendre is used to mean "to give back." But on this page: https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/auxiliary-verbs-2/ , which discusses using variable auxiliary verbs in the passé composé, it mentions that retourner can also be used transitively and in that case, it changes its meaning to "to give back." So in the passé composé, can retourner be used in the same way that rendre is?
For example, would both of these be correct?
1. J'ai rendu le livre à la bibliothèque.
2. J'ai retourné le livre à la bibliothèque.
How do I take a quiz on relative pronouns?
bonne chanson pour pratiquer mon orale et diction.
A general question rather than a specific one, though this is an example. The lessons, as I understand them, teach that short, and some common adjectives go before the nouns, but otherwise (unless for particular stress) most adjectives go after the noun.
However, I have noticed that often these rules don't seem to apply. Puissant is neither short (in my mind one syllable), or common. However the text above places it before, but after is acceptable as well when the exercise is marked.
I have noticed this many times in doing the exercises. As a consequence, I am confused.
If the simple answer is that "short" means 2 syllables, I will be content.
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