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"I asked him where things stand on the contract. All I heard was....
(crickets)." (Urban Dictionary) "She promised to give me a progress report last week.
Since then --- crickets "(...
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I learned a few days ago that "j" is a fairly new letter. I looked up some samples of antique french books(pre-1633) and found a lot of words like (Saint)"Iaques", "ie", &...
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Il semble qu'en anglais l'ordre d'un groupe d'adjectif soit bien spécifique:
“Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So ...
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Les hommes parlent sans cesse.
If I were to frame the question which brought out this response, would it be:
Qui parle sans cesse?
Or
Qui parlent sans cesse?
I felt that it should be the second one, ...
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J'ai entendu plusieurs fois l'expression "en derrière de XXX" (pour dire, je pense, "derrière XXX"). Savez-vous d'où elle vient ?
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It seems that in old Spanish dictionaries, the word adrianes is translated as "Nids de Pie":
This is taken from the Palet dictionary, published in 1604. Other authors have also included ...
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I got a sentence about en.
Vous en avez trouvé une.
The history is about looking for a solution.
Vous avez cherché une solution et vous en avez trouvé une.
What does en mean in this case?
I know ...
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Recently, I've been around native French speakers on a daily basis and constantly hear phrases like “Ah! d'accord, okay”, but from my (very basic) understanding of French, they mean the same thing.
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Que veut dire l'expression « Blaireau, va! »? Est-ce lié à la bande dessinée Parker & Badger?
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According to https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/it+is+what+it+is
this idiomatic expression is used to talk about the
The situation, circumstance, or outcome (that) has already happened or been
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I'm using duolingo to practice my French which is good for immersion but kind of lacking on grammatical explanations. I keep running across what looks like two types of possessive pronouns. Sometimes ...
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Il s'agit d'une question que je me suis toujours posée.
En effet de rien (littéralement from nothing) n'a, dans ce contexte, que très peu de sens.
D'ailleurs dans certaines régions de France, le ...
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Y a-t-il un nom particulier donné aux bulles utilisées pour faire parler les personnages dans les bandes dessinées ?
Je parle de ces bulles-là:
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Il est très difficile pour moi de comprendre quelles sont les lettres que je dois prononcer et quelles sont les lettres que je dois ignorer ; pouvez-vous me l'expliquer mieux ?
Merci beaucoup d'avance....
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