Devoir needs to be followed by an INFINITIVEA light bulb went off for me after reading Sandra’s post below.
If I may add my two cents worth to expand on what she said…..
When I looked back over my incorrect answers, I had been choosing responses containing ‘devoir’ without an infinitive following, so in reality those sentences had an entirely different meaning.
Devoir + noun (no verb) = to owe
Je dois de l’argent – I owe some money
Il me doit dix euros – He owes me 10 euros
So only the first two out of the three following test examples can be correct or mean "to need":
•Marie doit ACHETER un nouveau sac à main = correct (devoir + infinitive)
Marie needs to buy a new handbag
•Elle doit RENTRER de bonne heure = correct (devoir + infinitive)
She needs to go home early
Vous devez un nouveau vélo = incorrect (no infinitive after devez)
I owe a new bike??
Am I on the right track here?
can you say qui es tu , and does it means the same as tu es qui ?
1)I just did a quiz on futur proche. One answer was: Demain, j'y verrai plus clair. (Tomorrow, I will see more clearly.) What does y represent here?
2) Ils sont vus des animaux en Afrique? Oui, ils y en a vus. If only a single adverbial pronoun is acceptable, which one do I select?
Thanks in advance
Why is. ´Mardi 6 janvier, j'étais malade.´ wrong?
For the example elle y repond, does this mean it's wrong to say elle le repond? Or elle la repond?
Thanks in advance.
I really enjoyed this short video and transcript, thank you for this Kwiziq. Can anybody answer the above for me please? I have recently moved to France and could really benefit from watching programs with accurate subtitles as i find Netflix etc really poor and i can't find any channels on TV with available subtitles. Can anybody recommend to me some good resources? Many thanks to all.
A light bulb went off for me after reading Sandra’s post below.
If I may add my two cents worth to expand on what she said…..
When I looked back over my incorrect answers, I had been choosing responses containing ‘devoir’ without an infinitive following, so in reality those sentences had an entirely different meaning.
Devoir + noun (no verb) = to owe
Je dois de l’argent – I owe some money
Il me doit dix euros – He owes me 10 euros
So only the first two out of the three following test examples can be correct or mean "to need":
•Marie doit ACHETER un nouveau sac à main = correct (devoir + infinitive)
Marie needs to buy a new handbag
•Elle doit RENTRER de bonne heure = correct (devoir + infinitive)
She needs to go home early
Vous devez un nouveau vélo = incorrect (no infinitive after devez)
I owe a new bike??
Am I on the right track here?
"Excellent" was shown before and after the "journée" in the corrected answers.
"Délicieuse" was before"bûche."
Please explain this placement.
The suggested grammar sections to read did not relate to what I got wrong, which was mostly prepositions or vocabulary. Does that mean you don’t have lessons on those points? Maybe you should add them. I don’t think you should test on points that you don’t have explanations for on your site.
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