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I thought I’d sorted this out already but evidently not. I believe that the answer I gave in the heading is, according to the lecture notes, correct. Correction welcome. So why was it marked wrong and the correct answer given as “je suis avec cinq minutes d’avance”? I’m fine with this answer too but why was my answer marked as incorrect?
How would we best translate this ?
WordReference has a fixed expression "il serait temps" as "It's about time", so how does these sound ?
"It's about time to find a solution ! "
"It's about time a solution is found !" (Think I like this better than the first one).
Thanks. Paul.
Dans ce-phrase-ci, pourquoi "d'activité" n'est pas pluriel?
"...ainsi que certains domaines d'activité tels que..."
There are a lot of interesting tense changes to consider in this exercise! But why do we hop back into the present tense here:
“until she gave birth to her daughter Claude”
“jusqu'à ce qu'elle accouche de sa fille Claude”
“jusqu'à ce qu'elle donne naissance à sa fille Claude”
I don't have the best ears, but I do not hear beaucoup after t-shirt. I hear "au contre" instead.
Ma femme viendra nous rejoindre après avoir couché le bébé.
My wife will come and join us after putting the baby to sleep.
(HINT: Use 'coucher' (to put to bed))
I put:
Ma femme viendra nous rejoindre après être couché le bébé.
I thought coucher takes être as its auxiliary. Does that only apply when its reflexive? Or is there some other problem?
When is it appropriate to use "Plus que parfait" in a conversation?
I do most of my studing at work because when I go to the same email at home and click on the lessons it does not reconize me as a member Thank you
To be sure, a romantic image ! I had a little problem with the female voice , which is normal for me because of loss of hearing in the higher frequencies. That is not a complaint. Today, I decided to listen again after completing the exercise, this time without translating in my head. It was slow enough that I could do that with ease. It seemed like a breakthrough! I think I will continue with this approach.
"Pronunciation Note:
When plus has a negative meaning (no more), you never pronounce the final -s."Does that mean that the final -s is always pronounced if the meaning is positive? Is that how French people distinguish between 1) J'ai plus du temps and 2) J'ai plus de temps (where 2 is really Je n'ai plus de temps with the ne omitted as it often is in conversation). How do native French listeners tell the difference?
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