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Is the following sentence correct?
Je ne comprends rien.
Sounds strange to me.
I used John Darbelnet's Pensée et Structure when studying French at Purdue University in the late 60s and early 70s. He did not offer a "faire" construction at all. There were four choices:
Ce bâtiment a une longueur de trente mètres.
Ce bâtiment a trente mètres de longueur.
Ce bâtiment a trente mètres de long.
Ce bâtiment est long de trente mètres.'
It's things like this that make me question the quality of this site. John Darbelnet was a distinguished pedagogue but of a different era. I would be interested in further input. La grande robert has been of no help.
Max Kime, Indianapolis
C'est très utile mais ils parlent trop vite pour moi.
My new school bag is blue and yellow….Mon nouveau cartable est jaune et bleu :
In the examples, to know a recipe uses connaître. When used in the quiz for pumpkin pie recipe, connaître is wrong and saviour given as correction. Please elucidate.
what gender can be used with du des a'l' de la and de l'
I understand how they are formed but I don't understand when they should be used and when they shouldn't be used. I don't understand how to determine whether the verb should be reflexive or not and in what type of sentences you should use it, could you please clarify this for me. Thanks in advance.
Are the words chosen in the text above the best way to express the thoughts? because they don't necessarily match the "best" response in the exercises.
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