Do French native speakers use the inversion in questions in the first person singular?

Je pèse --> pèse-je,

or do they simply say: Est-ce que je pèse (60 kilos - for example)?

It is not enough to read French correctly.

It is not enough to literally understand what is written.

You also need to be French in order to correctly understand the meaning of what was said...


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Specifically, in French at work (OK = "test passing", "KO" = "test failing"), and in Italian here (scroll down for the history of Russian revolution in hand-drawn cartoons with ( Read more... )

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...should be used with subjonctif. But I came across a sentence that uses conditional:

Il est à craindre que les mineurs ne seraient pas prêts à accepter de différentes restrictions qui leurs impose le ministre.

Is it correct? If so, how it should be translated into English?

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