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In this sentence - 'William Jones déclarait au sujet de cette langue ancestrale : "La langue sanscrite...' - why is the imperfect used with an action that happened only once, and on a specified date ?
In this song, divin enfant is pronounced as if it were divine enfant. When is the liaison sounded in other adjective-noun groups?
Could someone comment on the function of “au” in “très au sérieux”? It is optional? In which other circumstances might we see a similar thing?
Sorry, no accents. In the sentence, I am not sure if you use l'imparfait first, and the second part of the sentence is what? subjunctive or indicative? It sounds strange to me, because in English you would say something like "little did it matter that they bit or not" or maybe "would bite"? (if I translated literally it wouldn't sound right at all: "it didn't matter that IT bites or not" (strange already because the previous sentence talks about several fish). Not quite sure because English is not my first language. But in Spanish we would use the past subjunctive in this sentence, but then in Spanish we have more tenses and we also use a lot more often the subjunctive mode than in French...
Bonjour, je voudrais savoir si'il y a (il doit que) pour sobjonctif
J'ai vu cette exemple:
Il doit partir la semaine prochaine.
Est-ce qu'on peut dire aussi:
Il doit que nous partions la semaine prochaine.
Somehow, I always translate "city" to "ville" and "town" to village. Help me to think about this differently, if you can!
And we cooed over all....
can we write et nous avons recoulé sur tous les cadeaux ?
Why can't i use ensuite instead of puis in this sentence?
"puis fera une escale à Paris avant de prendre un autre vol pour Montpellier. "
If I say Je vous deteste tous-I hate all of you. Then,tous is a pronoun but not a complement to the subject. So do you pronounce the S?
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