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"I'm not quite clear what you're asking here? Are you asking which tenses would be us…"

Neil Coffey replied Apr 9, 2012 to Tenses please (no need to translate)

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"Yes. This has come up before on the forum: it's essentially a euphonic device (that'…"

Neil Coffey replied Apr 9, 2012 to help- structure of a sentence: 'L'on"

2 Apr 9, 2012
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""ainsi" is generally suitable for semi-formal written contexts (so newspaper article…"

Neil Coffey replied Apr 9, 2012 to ainsi (que)

2 Apr 9, 2012
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"If they've put that in the transcript, it's just a typo. As George rightly points ou…"

Neil Coffey replied Apr 8, 2012 to "qui sont soient"

3 Apr 8, 2012
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"Some prescriptivists have considered "très" to be an "error" (but remember that when…"

Neil Coffey replied Apr 8, 2012 to when NOT to use "beaucoup"

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"*Technically* speaking: An interrupteur is a simple "on-off" switch. A commutateur…"

Neil Coffey replied Mar 30, 2012 to interrupteur versus commutateur

1 Mar 30, 2012
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"My impression would be this sexual connotation with French "dormir avec" is less str…"

Neil Coffey replied Mar 30, 2012 to question about dormir vs. coucher

11 Mar 30, 2012
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"In general in French, when "has", "does", "will" etc are just 'standing in for' anot…"

Neil Coffey replied Mar 29, 2012 to French for 'but my friend has'

3 Mar 29, 2012
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"Just to add: in (3), I'd suggest: C'est un bon auteur, non? Obviously if you keep th…"

Neil Coffey replied Mar 29, 2012 to tag questions

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"Basically, as mentioned, "dormir" is the general word for "sleep". "se coucher" mea…"

Neil Coffey replied Mar 29, 2012 to question about dormir vs. coucher

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