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The question and answer: J'ai fini. - Write "I didn't finish." : Je n'ai pas fini
makes me wonder... In English 'I have not finished' implies you are still working on it, whereas 'I did not finish' implies that you are not still working on it (e.g. you ran out of time in an exam). It looks as if the passé composé could mean either of these. Right? If so, what is the easiest way to make this distinction in French?
i was wondering why for the sentence
j’aime les escargots. It becomes je le aime instead of je les aime.
thank you
I have read that if the subject of the secondary clause is the same, that one should not use the subjunctive, instead just use the infinitive. But i have a sentence where i'm trying to figure out how to do that even though it feels like the subject has to be restated and would require conjugation. I'm trying to say "Sometimes I feel like i don't know any french", and here's what i've come up with. Would be great to get some guidance on this, perhaps there's a better way to construct the sentence. Merci!
Parfois, je me semble que je ne sache aucun de francais.
I have heard that we shouldn't pronounce the "x" in six and dix before consonants. But in this exercise the "x" is clearly heard in "six mois". Is this correct, and if so is this pronunciation optional before a consonant? (I think I have heard it more frequently like "si-mois")
Fireworks is translated in this lesson as "le feu d'artifices" but in this page https://kwiziq.learnfrenchwithalexa.com/studylists/view/946769 it is translated as "le feu d'artifice". In Larouse online it is translated as "le feu d'artifice" too. The Kwiziq writing challenge about Bastille Day also uses "le feu d'artifice".
But elsewhere on the web I can see examples with "les feux d'artifices" and even "les feux d'artifice". So all 4 possibilities of singlular and plural for both the noun and adjective are covered.
Are all of these variations correct?
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