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Thank you for doing slower recordings, it helps a great deal 👍🏻
I don’t understand why this translates in the present as well as in the historic past?
Does this lesson apply in this example:
I want to say, I would really like to see you when I come to Paris."" Which is correct?
J'aimerais bien te rencontrer quand je serai venue à Paris! ou J'amerais bien te rencontrer quand je viens à Paris.
If the latter is incorrect, should I just think of this as saying... "when I will have come to Paris."
Some advice please on when to use vouloir in the present versus the conditional for "I want". In English, insofar as I know, we don't distinguish between "I want" and "I would like". On second though, perhaps "I want" expresses a slightly stronger desire.
D'accord:
"You will NOT use le when talking about weekdays in a specific context (on Monday):
Mercredi, tu iras à l'école.On Wednesday, you will go to school."
UNLESS "when giving a whole date (day/number/month/[year]), such as
Le mardi 5 mars, j'ai rencontré Lola.On Tuesday the 5th of March, I met Lola.
Par example on the test : Le mardi 6 janvier, j'étais malade.On Tuesday the 6th of January, I was sick.
HOWEVER< If the question was "On Tuesday I was sick" (without the whole date), it would be "Mardi, j'étais malade."
Is that correct?? Thanks
The phrase I saw:
Je suis tout à fait satisfait du cadeau que j’ai trouvé pour Sarah. Je l’ai emballé dans DU JOLI PAPIER et je lui donnerai ce soir.
Here the "du joli papier" I thought it is not preceded by any "de" preposition. "emballer dans" is the preceding phrase. So why is DU used here? A mistake?
I'm inferring from the context that "clou" here means something like "highlight" or perhaps "grand finale", but I was unable to anything like this sense in the reference materials that I have on hand. "The nail of this stay" doesn't make a lot of sense to me, so I figure it has to mean something else.
Help in sorting this out will be appreciated.
what is the difference between annee and an? ive only heard of/used annee before
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