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Noun without article

This line is from Wiki, from a translation for Lincoln's Gettysburg address: Nous sommes maintenant engagés dans une grande guerre civile,…

Started by Robert in French Grammar

4 Jul 19, 2014
Reply by Neil Coffey

please help translate this

I found some pages on the web from an unfinished Tintin comic, titled: "Tintin et le thermozéro'' Tintin and Haddock are in Italie on a roa…

Started by Tim brtlnk in Translation Help

5 Jul 1, 2014
Reply by Vedas

Avoir beau infinitif

Apparently, the idiom is used in the verses below. May I see them as might be rendered en anglais? Merci beaucoup. On a beau faire on a be…

Started by Robert in Translation Help

1 Jun 27, 2014
Reply by George Hunt

Plz check on my paragraph

Hello, I have just begun studied french recently.  This is the paragraph I wrote about an interesting trip in the past tense. J'ai voyagé…

Started by Hop Pham in Translation Help

13 Jun 27, 2014
Reply by Chantal Savignat

Online French course

Hi, I m Indian and will be shortly going to France for my first trip there. I heard French people don't speak good English, so I want to…

Started by Amit Roy in French learning / teaching

3 Jun 24, 2014
Reply by Jordane DEVEMY

The place of this 'qui'

Hi! I'm reading this sentence. Mais un fantasme de traduction parfaite prend la relevé de ce banal rêve qui serait l'original redoublé.…

Started by Thinkpad in French Grammar

14 Jun 22, 2014
Reply by Thinkpad

Quel est-ce que le problèm ?

The instructive statement below is from a wiki article. ... For example "Quel est le problème ?" is preferred to "Quel est-ce que le probl…

Started by Robert in French Grammar

19 Jun 17, 2014
Reply by Neil Coffey

Avoiding repetition of same noun

In the question below, 'elle' works nicely as substitute for 'la vie,' but 'la guerre' is repeated: Comment était la vie des civils avant…

Started by Robert in French Grammar

6 Jun 10, 2014
Reply by Robert

Lequel vs. Celui

Are these 2 sentences interchangeable? Il y a cinq témoins, lesquels témoins vont arriver demain. Il y a cinq témoins, ceux qui vont arriv…

Started by Robert in Translation Help

10 Jun 5, 2014
Reply by Chantal Savignat

Help with a philosophical sentence please!

Hi everyone! I need to translate this : In this article, I respond to John Smith's criticisms of my arguments concerning the evidential wei…

Started by Rachael Barham in Translation Help

13 Jun 3, 2014
Reply by Robert

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