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Laura
Kwiziq language super star
3/05/16
Bonjour Joakim,
Very true. Next step is to think of longer phrases that you use all the time as single words. :-)
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Joakim
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24 April 2016
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Today's insight
A way to simplify things is to think of short phrases as if they were single words. "il y a" is an obvious example. With "j'ai" as a single word, one does not have to think about the rule were the terminating vowel of a word must be replaced with an apostrophe when the next word begins with a vowel. And with "ce qui est", one does not need to think about the rules about when to use "ce que" vs "ce qui".