"Le week-end dernier, je suis passé chez Julie."
Translation:Last weekend, I stopped by Julie's place.
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If an audio exercise is given with a feminine voice (as this was for me), the feminine endings should at the very least be accepted. "Le week-end dernier, je suis passée chez Julie" was rejected; I reported it.
We don't 'stop by' in England. We drop in (ie a very quick visit) or we visit.
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Same here in Oz, but "Last weekend I dropped in at Julie's place" = not accepted Mar 2021!
Clear mistake: A woman is speaking--"je suis passé" should be "je suis passée".
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there are enough single-sex relationships mentioned on Duolingo to assume that a woman can spend the weekend with another woman!
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I'm a bit puzzled by the meaning of stopped by. Its use in the US is clearly different from its use in UK or Aus English. Does it mean stayed at a place or merely dropped in and then went away?
Yes but maybe you'll visit the US sometime and it will come in handy.
To further complicate things, it's not common usage across the entire US. "Went by" means the same thing as stopped by, stopped in, dropped in, popped over... This question needs a few more acceptable options.
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I'm American, and they're not quite the same. Went by suggest you went past it but didn't stop. Stopped by means you went in, as does stopped in, but not for long. Popped over suggests someplace close by that doesn't take long to travel to. I'd say stopped at would potentially be another one.
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In UK English "stop by" as I have heard it means a short visit to somebody, from a minute to a couple of hours. But that was in big, crowded London -- maybe in places where people are more spaced out it could include staying overnight?
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So far as I am aware, "to stop by" is a "flying visit" throughout the UK.
An overnight stay would be "to stay over" or "to stop over", the latter being a break in a longer journey. This becomes the aviation "stopover", which is any break in a long flight, not necessarily an overnight one.
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Agreed! In fact, 'stop by' suggests passing someone's house on the way home and deciding to call in unexpectedly. It certainly doesn't rate as an arranged visit. I think we would use 'Call in to' in these parts, but I didn't dare use it in case Duo was unfamiliar with the expression!
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Can someone elaborate please -- is "I went by someone's place" a wrong translation for "passer chez quelqu'un". Does passer imply stopping in? There is a subtle difference in "stopped by" and "went by" in English. Is it implicit in the "chez"? Thanks.
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I'm pretty certain it means you go to the place with the intention of entering it (you'd still use it if you went there but no one was in). HTH
How would we translate "I spent last weekend at Julie's place"? Just trying to the difference between that one and example straight
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"I spent …" => "J'ai passé …".
"I visited Julie …" => "J'ai rendu visite à Julie …".
"Visiter" is used for visiting places, not people, so "J'ai visité chez Julie …" would mean "I visited Julie's place …" and I'm not convinced that is the intent here.
It sounds very odd. In English the thing you would be "spending" here is the weekend so it should really go after the verb i.e. "I spent last weekend at Julie's place"
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That is not what this means. That would be "Le week-end dernier, je l'ai passé chez Julie."
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I wrote "je suis passée" as the speaker's voice was female; surely the answer should have been marked as correct?
This is one of Duo's examples in which I copy-paste the "correct" response, say "whatever" to myself, and drop in Duo's response the next time it comes up, just to complete the exercise grouping.
"...je suis passée" is still rejected on 26 September, 2021. Reported.
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Tip:《dernier》 (meaning last) and《prochain》 (meaning next) go AFTER nouns relating to time, for example, semaine (meaning week) and mois (meaning month). Otherwise they go BEFORE the noun.
If it's a girl or a woman who went to see Julie, shouldn't it be 'Je suis passee' with an extra 'e'?
No, but it would be "je suis passée" if the speaker was a woman. It's the subject, not the object of the sentence that has to agree for être verbs.
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"Le week-end dernier, je suis passée chez Julie." Amazing! Just a short while ago, I was dinged for using passé for a very masculine voice. Now I am dinged for using the feminine for a very feminine voice. What is wrong with Duo in these cases?
I think the speaker's voice may vary randomly, but the pictured icon of the speaker was male, so maybe that's why passé was masculine
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Actually, when I did it just now, the icon was female. I was also marked wrong for 'Je suis passée'. I suspect when Duo is in that mood, you really can't win!
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But she's obviously narrating a sentence written by a male.
Although clearly either gender should be accepted in the "Type what you hear" exercise.