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Literal translation of auxiliaries does not really make sense. "Pouvoir", here, have the meaning of "may" or "could" so it should be translated as: Where could my dog have gone With this senten …

"Mais" is like "but": it is a mark of opposition between the implications of the two parts of the sentence: Je n'aime pas les légumes, mais comme c'est toi qui les a préparés je vais y goûter. / I …

Non Avoir intention à n'existe pas. Google ngrams ne recense même pas une seule occurence de cette expression. Pour être destiné, le même outil nous indique que ces deux mots sont suivis de "à" enviro …

For a modern french speaker, they are pronounced too differently for a confusion to be possible. In "amour" (love), the "o" is actually bundled with the "u" to create a new sound "ou" (which sounds a …

Yes. It is the elided of "le" which is in this case a pronoun refering to the qualificative "beau". It could refer to qualificatives that are not adjectives, as in: "Es-tu l'assassin de mon père ?" " …

Concerning "beaucoup": In French, "beaucoup" is an adverb, not a noun, so you can't say "un beaucoup". You can say for example: J'aime beaucoup le chocolat. -> I like chocolate very much. J'ai beauco …

If faut dire: J'ai une question sur ta lettre. Car ici "ta lettre" est l'objet de la question. On utilise "de" après "question" quand "question" a le sens de "préoccupation": Il est question de ta …

You could also say: "J'ai éprouvé la même chose que toi maintenant" "éprouver" means "to have the feeling that" and is more idiomatic than "avoir le sentiment". You could use "se sentir" but "se se …

Most of the time the word "même" will be used: "I can't even do that !" -> "Je ne peux même pas faire ça !" For your second example, the "even a bit" does not translates well. The most idiomatic I c …

It is not grammatically correct. If it is a question as you wonder how he did you should say: Comment ce garçon de quinze ans a-t-il résolu un Rubik's Cube en seulement six secondes ? If it is a …

Une pensée pour ceux que j'ai très rarement pris l’occasion de remercier Is enough. "Dont" is used only if "ceux" is not who is "remercié", for example in: Une pensée pour ceux dont j'ai très …

The first sentence is in passé composé, it means you are talking about events that happened relatively close in the past. Here you are confronted to the vanishing of the island and wonder how it happe …

On peut aussi dire: Quelque femme vous a demandé. Mais cela n'est pas à utiliser en dehors d'un cadre littéraire.

The comparison with the English grammar won't help you here, as the articles work differently in the two languages (see Driblou's answer for more details on this point) In French you would usually se …

Before anything, be careful that "monter" isn't an exact equivalent of "to walk up". Most of the time it means "to mount" and it can have a sexual meaning. The rule is hard to grasp, but here are ways …