Tu l'as nettoyé ________ je te l'avais demandé?Did you clean it as I had asked you?
This could be interpreted as "Did you clean it LIKE I had asked you?" The question is ambiguous.
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Confusing question
This question relates to:French lesson "Ainsi que = as well as, just as vs the way that in French"
Asked 1 year ago
This is a question with a drop down selection list of answers - only one of which can fit in French.
The ‘ambiguity’ is in the English use of ‘like’ that you suggest - it is commonly used nowadays when/where ‘as’ would have been preferred in the past.
The fact that there is more than one way to translate into English, doesn’t make the French ambiguous in its native form.
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Confusing question
Tu l'as nettoyé ________ je te l'avais demandé?Did you clean it as I had asked you?
This could be interpreted as "Did you clean it LIKE I had asked you?" The question is ambiguous.
This could be interpreted as "Did you clean it LIKE I had asked you?" The question is ambiguous.
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