"This license is going to allow you to drive trucks."

Translation: Ce permis va te permettre de conduire des camions.

[Linda913103]

Why does hint say permettre à, when the proper use inbthd sentence is permettre de

[ZarrouguiL]

Good question actually. Permettre always goes with à. Here, the "à" is hidden in the pronoun "te" (te permettre = permettre à toi). If you were to replace it with a name, you would put it this way : "Ce permis permet à John de conduire"

So the structure is Permettre à quelqu'un de faire quelque chose.

[Dave962976]

And good answer too! Thank you yet again ZarrouguiL!

[Iain76154]

Why does the licence not allow him to drive all trucks ie les camions ?

[--Roody--]

Because the license allows you to drive a truck or un camion. Since des is the plural of un (whereas les is the plural of le) you must say des camions in order to produce the plural properly.

[QD.White]

But the english states "drive trucks", i.e., any and all trucks.

Is this just a french idiom that's peculiar and/or particular?

[Sitesurf]

For lack of dedicated articles in English, "trucks" by itself can be the plural of "a/one truck" or "all trucks in general". In French, those are distinct.

[SteveLowma]

So, as the English can have either meaning, should << les camions > be accepted here?

[GrahamNdP]

Why not « Cette licence » ?

[Jojo553168]

In french we use un permis de conduire, and une licence is either a bachelor degree or a permit for a company, it doesn't allow you to drive a vehicule.

[GrahamNdP]

Thanks Jojo553168 (& ZarrouguiL) - I really appreciate all your very helpful contributions! Just a note (for Jojo553168) - your last word should be spelled "vehicle" (no 'u')! :)

[Louradour5]

May I add IT licences in companies.

[ZarrouguiL]

For UK English it is ok. For US English, "license" means permit or degree

https://www.wordreference.com/fren/licence

[InvertedGo]

A driver's license is what you would call it northeastern US. Or in this case a truck license.

[BruceHenri]

Why is it permettre when va is used, is going to allow, looks like it should be va permet

[GrahamNdP]

Whenever you have more than one verb directly following each other in French, the first one is conjugated to the subject and the rest that follow are always in the infinitive form! :)

[CoryBeight]

Can someone explain to me why "te va permettre" is incorrect?

[GrahamNdP]

The object pronoun must come directly before the verb acting on it; what you've written would be the same as saying "...is going you to allow..."! :)