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In this text, I'm not convinced une restoration is a real French word. Is this a typo ? It's not in 3 dictionaries I've checked.
Shouldn't it be restauration ? If I am correct, please can it be corrected ?
thanks
Paul.
In the last sentence, "I will go there to cheer you on.", the word 'there' is translated as 'là' and the use of 'y' was not accepted. Is it just a question of emphasis? I searched for a lesson to clarify the usage of 'y' and 'là' but was not successful. I would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks.
“On vous appellera quand on arrive” would be considered an acceptable, if casual sentence, as opposed to “on vous appellera quand on arrivera” which is a bit clunky, no?
1st paragraph, 2nd sentence: saurez-vous retrouvez is translated as : "can you match" -- can you say a little about how savoir in the futur is used in this case?
Pendant des années, je me suis plié en quatre pour arranger les choses entre nous...
t's describing something habitual that happened over a long period of tim. It's in the middle of a longer passage also in the imparfait setting the scene for a discrete action to come....
Thanks in advance for the insights I know you will provide.
I didn't finish this exercise the first time round. I've come back to it - a long time later - but unfortunately it doesn't remind me which words/phrases to look up in advance, so had to guess all of them! Please could you do a reminder for when this happens?
What is wrong with saying "j’ai trouvé le livre d'enfants"?
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