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"I think we have decided that "une puce"  is a male or female flea (some of these beasts are androgynous) I am still confused about the genders and plural form of  "pou" and "poux" but it is a specialist…"

"Hi Neil It is very quiet on your site these days. I wonder what happened to all the school age students needing  help with their attempts. I  have a young Belgian  girl staying with us at the moment who is keen to improve her…"

"I see that. I think it is definitely wrong. Whether "travailler" would work I am not quite sure.  I listened to the voice recording of the sentence and it seems a correct rendition but I  still feel it is wrong. (Is he just…"

"Sure. I have heard it."

"On the internet? Sow me the link. I am sure it is wrong"

"it's from the reverso dictionary.  i just checked it and it's "de""

"I guess it would be a less common usage and I  have not come across it in a conversational setting . It doesn't mean quite  the same thing as "s'agir" so it is  a nice expression to have under one's belt."

"As written,I would say that sentence is  grammatically incorrect. "Le" would be fine. Perhaps your sentence is incomplete or there has been a typo."

"My first inclination was to say ,yes  it just applies in a "present" scenario  but I have quite easily found instances where it can indeed be "set in the past" Try this set of google returns (for "il allait…"

"probably the foreign cars made in the US give u the option of manual transmission but it might be that they import the car.  i think my grandfather had a US car that had manual transmission but he changed the gears from the steering wheel.…"

"actually, u should use "computer that knows..." better still would be "computer that's able to manage..." or "computer that can manage..." a computer doesn't really know anything cuz it's a machine, not a…"