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You're welcome. I'm not a French teacher, but my mother was ;-)
(I'm a student in electrical engineering, and I do indeed live in the French-speaking part of Switzerland)
As "deceased" in English, "décédé" is a bit formal in French. Nevertheless,...
Thanks Marc
You are good at French grammar. I mean you could describe the patterns of grammar.
Are you a teacher of French?
Once you told me that you lived in Switzerland.
I firmly recall when President Mitterand died in 1996, I heard the words '...
The first one is correct. You can also use "envoyer" instead of "poster".
"A propos" is perfectly correct here. But it is "il y a quelques mois"
---> "il y a + TIME_RELATED_WORD" in French = "TIME_RELATED_WORD ago" in English (il y a une semaine,...
For the first example, "Etes-vous jamais allé à Paris" is just as good, maybe preferable.
I beg to differ.
"Etes-vous jamais allé à Paris" wouldn't make any sense. If you want to use "jamais", you need to use a negative phrase:
N'êtes-vous jama...
For the first example, "Etes-vous jamais allé à Paris" is just as good, maybe preferable.
It doesn't have the "surprised" connotation that a direct translation would have in English -- "You mean to say you've NEVER been to Paris???"
And while you won't hear the word "club" a lot in French, we do say "clubbing" a lot in order to describe this activity, "soirée clubbing" in order to describe a clubbing party, and "clubber" in order to describe people going clubbing (as opposed ...
Hi Crack,
Your sentences are perfect, even the first one. Bravo!
boîte is not specifically a disco, but any kind of night-club. In argot, it's also used to mean a workplace.
"He eats only vegetables" is correct
Frank
1.When I go to France I will always speak French.
2.When I go to France I speak French.
3.When I go to France I always speak French.
All of the above are acceptable.
The second and third sentences mean that I am a person who goes to Fran...
No. Once again, and unlike English, we use "avoir" when talking about how old somebody is.
Il doit avoir au moins 30 ans.
"être 30 ans" wouldn't make any sense in French.
Yes, Frank
In French you do say I have 30.
J'ai 30 ans.
Though it sounds strange, this is the French way.
It goes the same with hunger.
In French, it is j'ai faim.
The above sounds strange. However, you don't say 'j'suis faim'.
Il doit être au...
When talking about how old sb is, you must use avoir in French.
So you are free to use either être or avoir in this context.
However, être means 'be' and avoir means 'have'.
2) would be the same 1) in French: Il doit avoir au moins 30 ans.
The tenses should match. Either use the present or the future, but both won't mix here.
Quand je vais en France, je parle toujours (le) français
Quand j'irai en France, je parlerai toujours (le) français
"le" is ok, but not necessary.
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