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- "This park is more beautiful …
"This park is more beautiful in spring."
Translation:Ce parc est plus joli au printemps.
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It's idiomatic. All the seasons use "en" except spring which uses "au". You just have to remember it.
%^$ !! Lost my last $%#@$ heart on a technicality!
That's all I have to say about it. I feel better now. And I WILL remember it :)
LOL. I've lost my last heart on this last sentence. Why do people bother inventing too many rules anw. Why not "en" for every season?!?!
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Why is "Ce parc est plus bel au printemps" unacceptable? I thought "bel" is used instead of 'beau' before a vowel or a word beginning with a silent h.
This applies when belle/beau is an adjective before a noun that begins with a vowel too. http://french.about.com/cs/grammar/a/specialadjforms.htm
I believe it's because 'au printemps' is a separate part of the sentence, not the part that 'beau' is modifying.
the correct form is "beau" because "bel" is used before a word which its first letter is a vowel
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Don't expect consistency from prepositions. They are always the trickiest bits of language and rarely translate cleanly from one to another.
Dans means in specifically in the sense of in a place or how long until something will happen. For time, you need either en or durant. This is pretty good run-down on the subject: http://french.about.com/library/weekly/aa040100.htm
Yes, but it's not idiomatic. Durant would usually be used for something less extended.
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"cet" is just the replacement of "ce" if the following word begins with a vowel / silent h. Since "parc" doesn't start with a vowel, you don't replace "ce".
"cet homme" or "cet enfant" but "ce citron" or "ce cheval" (even though they're all masculine).
