My solution to explaining ‘avoir besoin de’ versus ‘avoir envie de’ versus ‘devoir’Here is an explanation of how to know when to use ‘avoir besoin de’ or ‘avoir envie de’ or ‘devoir’. I figured out, after several hours and then using the link below, that to use ‘avoir envie de’ to mean ‘to have need of’ you must use it in this construction (from the lesson below):
To express to ... need [to do something], you will use avoir envie de / d' + infinitive of the verb.
Without the infinitive of a verb, avoir envie de cannot mean the same as ‘to need’. It will simply mean the same as ‘I want’. Note that ‘devoir + infinitive also means ‘to need’.
So, when trying to work out which one is correct to mean ‘to you have need of’ in the four answer options, if ‘devoir’ and/or ‘avoir envie de’ have an infinitive following them, they can also be marked as correct as ‘avoir besoin de’.
https://kwiziq.learnfrenchwithalexa.com/my-languages/french/tests/results/5955063/system?quick-lesson-popup=7
The question was:
Et vous ________ à une soirée.And you met each other at a party.HINT: rencontrer = to meet
The answer given was vous vous êtes rencontrés however is vous vous êtes rencontrées not also a possible answer?
- The correct answer was she likes Fred very much. Why can't it be, "She loves Fred very much"?
Il faut toujours essayer ... avant de juger. I used soi since I read this to be a universal self where soi is used. Why is it soi-même? What’s the rule to differentiate when using On to mean universal, we the people, etc? I used soi in a previous question using On and it was correct. Thanks.
I understood that, when referring to people, qui should be used after a preposition, excepting only parmi and entre. Has this changed?
Here is an explanation of how to know when to use ‘avoir besoin de’ or ‘avoir envie de’ or ‘devoir’. I figured out, after several hours and then using the link below, that to use ‘avoir envie de’ to mean ‘to have need of’ you must use it in this construction (from the lesson below):
To express to ... need [to do something], you will use avoir envie de / d' + infinitive of the verb.
Without the infinitive of a verb, avoir envie de cannot mean the same as ‘to need’. It will simply mean the same as ‘I want’. Note that ‘devoir + infinitive also means ‘to need’.
So, when trying to work out which one is correct to mean ‘to you have need of’ in the four answer options, if ‘devoir’ and/or ‘avoir envie de’ have an infinitive following them, they can also be marked as correct as ‘avoir besoin de’.
https://kwiziq.learnfrenchwithalexa.com/my-languages/french/tests/results/5955063/system?quick-lesson-popup=7
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