"Il ne me l'a pas remboursé, je suis contrarié."

Translation: He didn't pay me back for it; I'm upset.

[SimonPowel9]

Sometimes you need the "for it" sometimes you don't. Depends on how DL feels at the time. I'm upset!

[--Roody--]

I think it depends on whether the French verb is transitive or intransitive.

We will be grateful for these clumsy default sentences when we are asked to translate them back into French in Levels 4 and 5.

[blas_]

'He didn't pay it back to me' ?

[doublelingot]

Il ne lui a pas remboursé l'argent qu'il lui devait. Maintenant, il est en colère.

[AlexanderLapis]

Vista double winged it I wish I could just go to your profile and talk to you Haven Mama Said here we go how's your day been

[AlexanderLapis]

It's been 0.00000000000001 Seconds how come you haven't replied yet

[IllparlerFrench]

Same, I also tried this. Still not good enough for Duo

[Penguinair]

The speaker's voice is female, yet the answer is " je suis contrarié " . Shouldn't the answer be " je suis contrariée " ?

[waakak]

It should. Annoyingly, Duo doesn't match the voice of the speaker with the sentence.

[--Roody--]

Omg get over it

[BarbaraSti2]

It accepted contrariée for me but told me i had a typo. I reported it

[kallvt]

I don't even see how "for it" is necessary.

[Cheporbik]

Why is this wrong? ; "he didn't reimburse it to me, I'm upset"

[JCw4bx]

My understanding is that the "me" pronoun in the French sentence is the indirect object. And the " l' " pronoun is the direct object.

So in very awkward English just to illustrate the point, the French is saying: "He did not, to me, for it, pay back ".

Supposing then if Sandra is upset because Paul did not pay her back for a suitcase (la valise) she bought on his behalf, would she write, using pronouns:

"Il ne me l'a pas remboursée, je suis contrariée."

The additional "e" on remboursée being because of the rule that any past participle conjugated with a form of avoir agrees in gender with a preceding direct object pronoun.

The direct object pronoun being the '' l' '' standing in for the suitcase which is feminine.

The additional "e" on the adjective contrariée is there because Sandra is a woman and is upset.

Any thoughts?

[John54715]

Where's the "a" for "a remboursé"?

[John54715]

I see it correctly above in "l'a" but it's not shown in the green box of the exercise itself.

[Tinyset]

This verb is annoying.

[Bekir978479]

He did not pay me back, he did not pay it back for me....Millions of ways to say it Duo!!!

[Romy955228]

He hasn't pay it back is even more logical.

[Mary588787]

I actually put "he didn't repay me" which I thought negated the need for the "for it" etc.
Apparently, that wasn't what I was supposed to learn!
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We had a private cremation carried out yesterday, lost without him.
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[Todd981655]

I HATE THIS $#$$%@& NARRATOR. I GET ALL OF HIS WRONG BECAUSE I CAN'T UNDERSTAND HIM.