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Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions the idea of direct object. A direct object receives an action, but doesn’t participate. In the sentence He washes the apple., the direct object is the apple. Making it a pronoun, you’d say He …
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions notre and nôtre. Sometimes, the presence of an accent changes a word’s meaning in French. For instance, notre is a possessive adjective meaning our. However, nôtre is a possessive pronoun meaning ours. Nôtre is …
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions a practical difference between jusqu’à and jusqu’à ce que. In French, jusqu’à and jusqu’à ce que both mean “until.” The difference is that jusqu’à means “until [a noun]” while jusqu’à ce que means “until …
Self-tutoring about French expressions: the tutor mentions je m’attends. Je m’attends means I expect. The infinitive form is s’attendre. However, it’s not necessarily used as often in French as I expect is in English. Source: french.kwiziq.com
Self-tutoring about French vocabulary: the tutor mentions the verb s’emparer. S’emparer is a French verb that perhaps suggests not only grabbing or seizing, but also taking control of. It’s reflexive: Il s’empare de l’intrus. (He takes hold of the intruder.) …
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor observes a peculiarity. In French, a “thing” is feminine – une chose. Once you get more specific, however, the gender of that “thing” can turn out to be masculine or feminine. Quelle chose a-t-il utilisé …
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions an irregular pattern of a few verbs. It’s je m’appelle, (“I call myself”), but the infinitive form is appeler. Similarly, je rejette (“I reject”), when the infinitive is rejeter. Doubling the end consonant happens …
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Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions an expression that’s come up a few times in his reading. Apparently, Il n’y a past un chat is a French expression that means “No-one is there.” Taken literally, it means “There is not …
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions French plurals. Typically, similarly to English, French adds s at the end of a noun to make it plural: une femme, deux femmes. However, in English we have some pluralizations that would be unpredictable: …
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions the idea of détente. I heard about “détente” when I was a kid: it was an easing of relations between the US and the Soviets, and extended to 1979. Its main players were Nixon …