"She did not ask for me."
Translation:Elle ne m'a pas demandé.
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That's my question too. What's the difference in French between "She didn't ask me" and "She didn't ask for me"?
Sitesurf has given a thorough grammatical explanation here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/8881427
Your sentence is in present tense. To put it in past tense, use Passé composé: Elle ne m'a pas demandé(e).
I guess it is wrong 'cuz you must mention the auxiliary verb "have" even though the sentence is written in simple past... And the negative sentence sequence in french is always " ne + the object pronouns if necessary+ have/has + pas + verb.... That's what I got for myself.... Hope it helped you
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Read Sitesurf's comments here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/8881427
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A very full discussion here and helpful. Thanks Sitesurf and thankyou too for pointing us all to it.. Have a lingot.
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I would also like to know the difference between "She didn't ask me" and "She didn't ask FOR me". Still no answers?
In French, they are expressed the same way. Context will tell you but we don't have any context here.
I believe there might be a problem with the corrected version of this sentence. she did not ask for me is different from she did not ask me, however the French interpretation was that she did not ask me :"elle ne m'a pas demandé" when it should be "elle n'a pas demandé pour moi".
The verb "demander" may be "to ask for" or "to request". When one "asks" a question, it is "poser une question".
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I tried "She did not ask for me." and "She did not ask me." in Google translate and both times the answer was the same. "Elle ne m'a pas demandé." English sentences have different meanings, so still do not understand why French translation is the same.
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It's because me can either be a direct or indirect object, and demander can take both, e.g. demander quelque chose à quelqu'un (all someone for something), but doesn't require both.
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I saw before je me suis demandé with (être) but now - n'a pas demandé (with avoir) why is it?
The expression "je me suis demandé" is a person engaging in reflection, i.e., "I asked myself...." In this sense, the verb is used reflexively and so requires être (as do all reflexive verbs in compound tenses).
The "ne...pas" always surrounds the auxiliary verb. This also applies to the other negative pairs: ne...rien, ne...jamais, ne...personne, etc.
DL gave me "demandée" and I don't know why it should be 'feminin'. Is that simply dependant upon the gender of the speaker?
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Demander goes together with the preposition à. But still, demandé à moi isn't accepted either, and I don't know why. Can anyone help?
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I honestly don't understand this sentence. The way it is translated, I understand that "she didn't ask anybody for her." While the way the french sentence is constructed, I understand:"she didn't ask me. Would anybody pls help me to understand this clearly?
