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La grammaire est l'étude systématique des éléments constitutifs d'une langue.
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How to understand "Je m'en vais."?
Quelle heure est-il ? Oh ! Il est 8 heures : je m'en vais.
It means “What time is it? Oh! It is eight o'clock: I'm leaving.”
But how to understand it, from grammar point of view?
Why is there …
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Meaning of “de hauts murs que dominent des cyprès”
I'm reading a novel, here's one paragraph
Enfin, elles atteignent le vieux Stamboul*. On dirait une autre ville, un autre pays. Après la bruyante frénésie de Galata, elles apprécient le calme des rue …
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What's the pronoun for "object of a preposition"?
I just learnt here that, there are different pronouns that each could connect the main clause and subordinate relative clause and serve as a particular role in the relative clause:
qui acts as the su …
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How to understand "Des situations difficiles il se tire par son charme."?
I'm reading a novel, here's part of it
Son neveu le prince Fouad lui ressemble : une même soif de vivre, mais avec en plus un sens aigu des réalités. Très conscient de ses intérêts, il sait céder …
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What does the "qui" mean in "crabes pressés qui disparaissent"?
I'm reading a novel titled "Attention aux pickpockets". Here is a paragraph describing a young man drawing on a bulletin board in a train station:
Oubliant ses problèmes, son renvoi et les yeux t …
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Why “de types” instead of “des types”?
There’s a book named “Recueil de Types de Ponts Pour Routes...”
I’m confused here that, if “types” is in plural form, shouldn’t “des” be used instead of “de”?
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Why “le” behind?
I’m reading Assimil New French with Ease, where its last lesson says
Reprenez le livre tous les jours et feuilletez-le.
, which means “Take the book again everyday and flip through it”.
But why …
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It isn’t that you must stop now
Il faut que vous vous arrêtiez maintenant.
means “You must stop now.” , while
Il ne faut pas que vous vous arrêtiez maintenant.
means “You must not stop now.”; how can one say
It isn’t …
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Dans quels pays les coureurs se rendent ils?
I'm reading "Assimil New French with Ease", and in lesson 90 it goes:
Quand le Tour de France a-t-il été créé?
Combien y avait-il d'étapes à l'origine?
Combien y en a-t-il aujourd'hui?
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Reviendrez or reviendriez?
About the poem Ce qu'il y a dans l'oeil du chat of Marc Alyn, I saw two versions
Verion 1 from the site De la lecture pour les enfants et de la lecture pour les parents:
Si vous saviez ce qu’il y a
D …
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What does "mise" mean in "la mise en marche"?
I'm learning French myself using Karl C. Sandburg's French for Reading and met this line:
A l'occasion de la mise en marche de ce nouveau laboratoire, M. Louis l-Ringuet, professeur de physique à …
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Questions on translation
I'm learning French by myself reading Karl C. Sandburg's book French for Reading , and get lost on this line:
Econome, elle mangeait avec lenteur, et recueillait du doigt sur la table les miettes …
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I haven’t done something since Christmas
From my previous post, it’s explained that
I haven't made a film for ten years... until now I made this one.
, can be said as
Je n'ai pas tourné un seul film depuis dix ans.
; while
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How to say in French "You have never proved anything except that light is of primary importa...
I'm a bit confused how to use ne ... que ... connecting a clause.
First, “You have never proved that light is of primary importance, can be said in French as:
Vous n'avez jamais prouvé que la lum …
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Syllables with e caduc
I'm reading L'Albatros by Charles Baudelaire and got confused at the syllables.
Wiki page says:
It is built with four alexandrins quatrains with crossed Rhymes (ABAB
type), alternating feminine and m …
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