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I encountered these two sentences in a language learning tool:
"J'ai voulu être un écrivain célèbre toute ma vie"
"J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un joueur de golf professionnel"
I'd like to know the reason why Passé Composé is used rather than L'imparfait.
And also, why "un joueur" is used despite the fact that we don't use indefinite articles when talking about professions?
Thanks a lot.
je l'ai rencontré is correct so I don't understand.
Can infinitif passé be used with avant de under some circumstances?
Here's an example sentence from my French class:
Il n'ira pas jouer avec ses amis avant d'avoir fini ses devoirs.
The question was to correctly conjugate the verb finir in the bolded place; I'd written finir (infinitif présent) in the first place.
Hi. Would it also be correct if I had added the little pronoun “en” in this final sentence of the exercise.
i.e. “et nous en avons profité de chaque minute“, or “nous en avons apprécié chaque minute” or “nous en avons savouré chaque minute“ ? (I was trying to be very literal and trying to get the “of it” into the sentence instead of just “we enjoyed every minute”)
Thanks.
we can never use When c'est is followed by an adjective or an adverb on its own, you NEVER use ce sont, even if the thing referred to is plural but can ı use adverb and adjective together??
for example
Est-ce que les livres sont vieux? oui Ce sont tres vieux (Yes they are very old)
I always learn so much with these Weekend Workouts; thanks for providing a way to practice as we learn.
Is it possible to provide the translations or at least a common source to look up the words and phrases suggested ahead of the Writing Challenges? I have often chosen different words and phrases than are used in the later given context.
Also, more specifically to this exercise, aren't we to use Le Présent when stating situations that are habitual? Here the Passé Composé is chosen for "Nous avons joué aux cartes, comme d'habitude ...," so I misunderstood something.
Merci !
Isabelle
Apologies if this topic has been already been covered, I searched a ways down the thread but didn't see anything relevant.
If a discussion exists, I will gladly accept a posted link.
So, in short, outside of familiarizing myself with "bien que" through rote memorization, I struggle to hear "good that". Is there a separate definition or etymology of the word "bien" that would explain how it came to be used in the sense of "even though"?
Thank you in advance!
We translated "I would like some toast" by " Je voudrais du toast" because "some" implies an undefined quantity. However, your webpage says that the correct answer is: "Je voudrais un toast". To us, this means: "I would like a toast". Could you please let us know if we are wrong?
Nous aurions pu choisir un grand chat ou pas?
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