avoir besoin d'argentFirst issue:
Interaction p 23 : Tu as de l'argent pour faire les courses? Non, j'ai besoin d'argent.
It explains "avoir besoin de uses de alone when followed by a noun used in the partitive sense" which must be the rationale for the response above.
1. Why isn't the question also partitive sense? Please help me make the distinction.
Second issue:
On p340, it says that avoir besoin de is one of a small number of verbs (it also includes s'agir de, parler de, se souvenir de) that require "de" before a noun object and gives the example
"J'ai besoin d'argent pour voyager" (no article before "argent")
and also gives "Nous parlons du Canada en cours" (has the article); Il s'agit d'un voyage au Canada; On se souvient du passé là-bas.
2. For all those examples on p340 except avoir besoin de, there is an article and I don't know why they differ.
I am becoming confused. Can someone help please?
Can “Ça marche géneralement plutôt bien” ( quite well) be rendered as assez bien? I e would assez bien and plutôt bien be interchangable in above sentence?
In the end-of-lesson full text to read and listen to the first sentence of the text reads "J'adore habiter au..." but the audio says "J'aime habiter dans la...".
Why t is pronounced in ´en fait ´ ?Thank you
I take issue with this. In the very real sense 'vous vous appelez...' is 'you call yourself...'. Not 'votre nom est...' - 'your name is'.
What I am CALLED - how I refer to myself or how others do - is not what my name is. They are two very different things, and in my family (and throughout many Russian-speaking families - though my family is English) people have names and then the diminutive or 'nickname' form.
For example, my grandfather's name is Charles. He is 'called' Ted.
Therefore, why is 'you call yourself...' an incorrect translation?
Rendre visite has a somewhat negative meaning in terms of something being an obligation. That's fine if that's what is intended but you "aller voir" someone who is a friend.
hi,
After reviewing the positions of adjectives is it correct to say that the sentence un extremement vieux parchemin would fall under the category for 2 or more syllables for the word extremement?
merci
nicole
Lis-tu des romans de temps en temps ?
First issue:
Interaction p 23 : Tu as de l'argent pour faire les courses? Non, j'ai besoin d'argent.
It explains "avoir besoin de uses de alone when followed by a noun used in the partitive sense" which must be the rationale for the response above.
1. Why isn't the question also partitive sense? Please help me make the distinction.
Second issue:
On p340, it says that avoir besoin de is one of a small number of verbs (it also includes s'agir de, parler de, se souvenir de) that require "de" before a noun object and gives the example
"J'ai besoin d'argent pour voyager" (no article before "argent")
and also gives "Nous parlons du Canada en cours" (has the article); Il s'agit d'un voyage au Canada; On se souvient du passé là-bas.
2. For all those examples on p340 except avoir besoin de, there is an article and I don't know why they differ.
I am becoming confused. Can someone help please?
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