The situation looks like this: there is a song that I like. It has many versions (many artists covered it). I like only two of them. And I wanted to present one of the two. Does "C'est une des deux mes versions préférées de cette chanson" describe it correctly?

Thank you!

I am doing some exercises from good ol' Mauger handbook and I'm stuck at some basic stuff. I am trying to conjugate this phrase Écouter le professeur et regarder le tableau in an interrogative mood. I did it like this ( Read more... )

I think I've heard an expression "une histoire tirée par les chevaux" for something along the lines of "tall/made up/contrived/far fetched tale/story".

Am I right, or did I misheard/misinterpreted?

Wiktionary says that ténèbres is plural feminine. I wrote a sentence with it: Les ténèbres sont tombées. but my teacher corrected it like this: Les ténèbres sont tombés. Could anyone explain it to me? I thought that you have to accord the participe passé if a verb conjugates with être.

Hi, I'd like some input from native French & German speakers here. It's for some product descriptions for an online shop. The site I use lets you add translations for any other languages you speak. Most of the other items in the shop are zines in English or art prints, so there's either no point having a blurb in other languages or it's simple ( Read more... )

I wanted to ask you if a sentence "We would have been discovered long time ago." is "Nous aurions été découvert il y a longtemps." in French?

Can anyone explain to me what the French construction "S'il vous/te plaît" comes from? As we know that could literally mean "If you like this", but we use this in the meaning of "please". But why there is no special word to say "please"? What if I don't like this ("Il ne me plaît pas ( Read more... )

I've always thought that (une) peau/(un) cuir in French is like skin/leather in English. The first one referring to the living cover of a human/animal/plant body, the latter--to the product made of skin, that serves to make shoes, or handbags, or clothes ( Read more... )

Bonjour ( Read more... )

From a Beckett's poem:

( bon bon il est un pays )