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Duolingo just got weird again. I truly hope that at least he lets the enfant mange une pomme rouge
Le enfant mange du pain , du chocolat , des frites , du poulet , du porc , de la viande , des legumes , le oignon , une potate , du poisson du riz, de la soupe , des haricots une tomate , des raisins et du vin
Off topic tip: frozen wine turns into a slush, so you can indeed eat it or save it for cooking later :) i always have freezer bags of reds and whites for pasta
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If you think that is wrong, it is not as wrong as what I thought... he hid an elephant. Should have realized you can't hide an elephant
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You think this is weird? You should see somme of the danish course. I'm pretty sure Denmark is the only place where ducks read, a teddy bear is not a toy, but a family member and you need to be told that the elephants are eating you.
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Well, obviously you've taken it. Wheter the reading ducks were the reason or not, you deserve a lingot.
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Oh my god, thank you. I did take it just to see and I like the language, hehe.
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Hahahahaha, I literally fell out of my chair from laughter! I love the way you worded that. And on a slightly more serious note, I totally agree about Duolingo having "weird" sentences; some of them are pretty sketchy. :D
You fell out of your chair laughing at that comment? I advise that you never attend a stand up comedy gig, the shock might kill you!
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As long as it isn't the man that has the big black bags (though that might be in the Italian course...)
I typed 'un elephant' instead of 'un enfant' for whatever reason... Would be hard to hide though.
Same here. I have no idea why I wrote "un elephant" instead of "un enfant."
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Thank you! I wish this was posted in every comment thread, or even better if DL showed you the full conjugation for each new verb.
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If the conjugation table isn't shown for the new verb just copy the verb and paste it into the box on this site: http://www.conjugation-fr.com/index.html
It will give you the infinitive of the verb along with conjugations for different tenses.
If you hover over the verb, there's an option that says 'Conjugate'. It'll give you a full list.
I believe so. But even on the desktop, there are some verbs that still lack the 'Conjugate' option. So for those verbs, you have to go to the 'Words' page on the top menu, find that word, click on it, and on your right, click 'More details'. It'll give you complete conjugation.
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The conjugate option is not available on mobile, neither is the words page.
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I use the Android app "French Verb Conjugator" by Ian Tipton. Awesome app, easy to read, and not complicated or cluttered.
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Did they take this from the french translation of anne franks diary? What the hell
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Hopefully in the context of a life/death situation.
Otherwise this would be really weird.
Totally weird. Some of these sentences are so strange...stuff like "the butterfly eats the horse."
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Can we get some context here? Like "il cache un enfant est apres il va a la prison"?
what is the french term for "under the floorboards"?
I feel this sentence is incomplete
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An alternative I've learned is "dans le frigo." In the fridge, but good enough. Less of an odor in the case of decomposition.
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What do you expect from a bird that sleeps all day, coughs up balls of bones, blinks slowly once an hour and can turn it's head full circle?
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They can not actually turn their heads 360° in one direction, maybe 180 (more or less) each way. Oh, sorry, cute comment, forgive me for being pedantic.
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True, they can only go 180 degrees but they return to the starting point so fast that it looks like a continuous turn.
Many people used to believe that owls occasionally strangled themselves by tracking an object if it revolved around its head. Slow motion photography reveals that they just turn their head back really fast.
However, it is a proven fact, observed by many, that green owls very often are brought to tears and eventually choke to death when exposed to improperly prepared passé composé.
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Um. So start looking far right, turn 180° to get to center, then 180° to the far left. Overall turning 180° + 180° = 360° in one direction.
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For some reason this reminded me of the industrial revolution when the were trying to crack down on child labour. The factory people would hide the children from the inspectors in shipping boxes covered in fabric or whatever they made...
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I too think that's a better translation. Could be a wall, fence, door etc. etc.. Reporting, as so often.
It's not even -the- child, it's -a- child. He hides A child. Not disturbing at all...
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The amount of times I have been going to quickly and translated this to 'elephant'!
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I imagine... many children playing 'hide and seek'. One child just ran into the room and said "Quick, hide me!". Being the quick thinker "he" is, "he" covers the child with his coat. The extra pair of legs and the giggling will probably give the child away though. 8)
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For a second i thought this said "coupe le enfant". That wouldnt be very good
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Could this be in the sense he is hiding the fact he has a child, like from someone he's dating, or is it explicitly he's hiding a child, like under the floorboards?
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You would need a masculine noun somewhere before your sentence. Take, for example, this one - Le chat est noir, mais il cache le fruit. That means "the cat is black, but it hides the fruit (one fruit). (sorry for the weird sentence, but ignore that. Just focus on the grammar here).
Just saying "il cache un enfant" would mean "he hides a child" and not "it hides a child".
If you just wanted to say "it hides a child", then you'd say "ça cache un enfant".
Hope that helps!
as weird as this sentence is... does it mean more to hide an object or to like hide from something?
