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c'est / ces/ ce / cette
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how to classify : c'est / ces/ ce / cette ? Thank you! :)
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loup
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hello! :) I would like to know the noun : loup (wolf). what is its feminine form? I mean what is it call to the female wolf. Thanks a lot!!
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Thank you very much, It helps a lot! :)
Thank you very much, everybody! It helps a lot! :)
Ce is the masculine singular demonstrative adjective.
Ce becomes cet in front of a masculine noun that begins with a vowel.
C'est la vie !
Ce matin ...
Cet homme est idiot. ( This man is an idiot.)
Cette is feminine singular.
Cette femme est jol…
c'est is the odd man out here. It's a contraction meaning this is or it is.
The others are pronouns meaning this or (more rarely) that.
ce = masc. singular
cette = fem. sing.
ces = plural
Hi Venus,
It's called a Louve.
Great explanation... Thanks..
savoir is to know a fact
and connaitre is to know a person
wow! Really good explanations !
Thank you very much!
It helps a lot!
So the sixth one is English.
It is very interesting.
Je peux cuisiner.
6. is Franglish. We would sometimes say this in order to say "please let me cook"/"I can cook, if you want me to", but never in order to say "I know how to cook".
7. is the right way to say "I know how to cook".
6.Je peux cuisiner.
The above is correct too. It means that you can make a meal.
In other words,when you are talking about your abilities you could say I can drive, I can find girls, I can cook etc.
7.Je sais cuisiner.
How do you distinguished the…
I know how to cook = Je sais cuisiner
Your 4th sentence is correct, Crack.
Thanks Frank and Katie for the replies.
I can cook.
The above means I know how to cook because there are some others who don't know how to cook.
I know how to cook.
Je sais comment cuisiner.
4.Je sais comment cuisiner la viande.
I know how to cook…
People have already given great responses here, but just to add my input, it helps me to think that "knowing how to do something" is a different kind of "know" that knowing a person or being familiar with something.
"knowing how to do" = sais (Like…
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