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Linguee.fr

A very helpful site I recently discovered.  Look up a word and you get a paragraph using the word and a translation of the entire paragraph…

Started by alan gould in French Grammar

3 Apr 29, 2013
Reply by Jon Head

décider v. se décider

I decided not to go.  J'ai décidé de ne pas y aller. but  J e n'arrive pas à me décider à y aller ou pas.   Is this the only time when you…

Started by alan gould in French Grammar

2 Apr 26, 2013
Reply by Neil Coffey

comment faire une saucisse, 1850, a la campagne

  un entonnoir dont le pavillon est echancre sur un point   This has got me stumped.  A funnel whose neck narrows into a point... A funnel…

Started by michael sanders in Translation Help

3 Apr 26, 2013
Reply by michael sanders

une espèce de

I know this as "a type of..."  The dictionary defines it as such, and uses the example:  "Elle portait une espèce de cape en velours.  Sh…

Started by alan gould in French Grammar

1 Apr 26, 2013
Reply by Chantal Savignat

"raide" with reference to money

You can use it as the slang word "broke" (I'm broke = have no money).  It also is used with reference to money meaning "steep" but there is…

Started by alan gould in French Grammar

1 Apr 26, 2013
Reply by Chantal Savignat

comment faire une saucisse, 1850, a la campagne

  un entonnoir dont le pavillon est echancre sur un point   This has got me stumped.  A funnel whose neck narrows into a point... A funnel…

Started by michael sanders in Translation Help

0 Apr 25, 2013

Tenses

The future tense sounds like the conditional tense; Je donnerais/Je donnerai when spoken or is there a subtle difference?

Started by Sally mills in French Grammar

21 Apr 25, 2013
Reply by Neil Coffey

Questions au sujet de l'histoire française

Bonjour a tous I'm going to attempt this post in French, so please accept my apologies for the mistakes. As well as any answers to my ques…

Started by Jon Head in French culture

6 Apr 24, 2013
Reply by Jon Head

Learning French from the Radio

Hi all It is great to have found this forum and I have read some really interesting and helpful posts, amongst which I have already found a…

Started by Jon Head in French learning / teaching

16 Apr 24, 2013
Reply by Jon Head

assumer

Not sure I quite get this: Pour une partie du "peuple de droite", sensible aux messages de Nicolas Sarkozy, la ligne nationale-conservatri…

Started by Rufus in French Dictionary / Vocabulary

1 Apr 23, 2013
Reply by Vedas

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