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"concours de circonstances"
Depending on context, perhaps: all things considered or without exception (if you mean to indicate that a procedure should aways be followed). Al
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Translation help please
Merci, Marc, and thanks for your time. Your help is much appreciated. Regards, Al
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Translation help please
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Pendant une émission de radio française récemment, comme j'ai lutté pour reconnaître des mots individuels parmi des syllabes ont propulsé dans mes oreilles, j'ai pensé « Dieu merci je ne dois pas co…
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Depending on context, perhaps: all things considered or without exception (if you mean to indicate that a procedure should aways be followed).
Al
Merci, Marc, and thanks for your time. Your help is much appreciated.
Regards,
Al
Récemment, lors d'une émission à la radio française, alors que je luttais pour reconnaître des mots parmi les syllabes qui fusaient, je me suis dit : "Dieu merci, je ne suis pas obligé de comprendre ce qu'ils disent !".
Quelle épreuve cela doit-il ê…
Thanks for your help, Stu.
Regards,
Al
I believe this is another case where the neuter pronoun on comes to the rescue in French, although to write How does one resist the anxiety about whether one will ever... would be archaic in English.
I won't translate the whole thing for you but po…
Pendant une émission de radio française récemment, comme j'ai lutté pour reconnaître des mots individuels parmi des syllabes ont propulsé dans mes oreilles, j'ai pensé « Dieu merci je ne dois pas comprends qu'ils disent! »
Qu'est la expérience pour…
Merci beaucoup Neil. J'apprécie votre aide.
Regards,
Al
Thanks Neil and Pam
I wasn't happy with the last sentence, but couldn't figure out how to make it better. Neil, when you mention que do you mean it should replace qui in this last sentence? Also, can you suggest a way of saying man-made? The only w…
du peintres would not be correct, since peintres is plural but wouldnt it be de peintres? partitif since we don't know exactly how many painters?
Pam
Henri Matisse a été un artiste qui est né Décembre trente et unième, dix-huit cent soixante neuf en la France du nord. Il a été principalement un peintre, mais il a produit aussi les sculptures et les collages.
Son succès premier est venu en dix-ne…
Can you give me a hint which one is the correct answer in this case:
C'est un ....., il mesure 1,90 m
a: grand homme; b: haut homme; c: homme gros; d: homme grand.
Merci Frank.
Are you saying that because there isn't an infinitive immediately following apprendre & aider in my example, the à isn't required? Also, why is the infinitive éviter in your example preceded by à. Doesn't the infinitive contain the pre…
Hi Al,
Here's a correction:
Je veux apprendre à le français pour aider mon cerveau à éviter de devenir du fromage.
Constructions like apprendre à, commencer à and essayer de are always followed by a verb in its infinitive form, never by a noun.…
Thanks Neil--the comments about que and - when you have "to" before an infinitive meaning "in order to", the usual preposition is pour are particularly helpful.
I've long found it confusing to distinguish between when a preposition is needed before…
Hi Al!
Yes its called the "BAGS" rule, beauty, age, goodness and size tend to go before the noun, see
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=bags+rule+in+french&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
also,some adjectives take a different meaning depending…
Thank you Pam, that's very helpful.
I still have lots of problems with the placement of adjectives, and I never can figure out whether I need to use à in front of an infinitive (à fabriquer, à savoir)--it always seems redundant. Do you happen to kn…
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