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Manatee

Not quite: "Je n'aurais pas dû le leur prêter, mais je le lui demanderai"

This is correct.

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Aitch

This is correct.

Thank you, Aitch - I thought I was going mad.

:smile:

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Manatee

What exactly is wrong with my answer?

sorry once again! there was nothing wrong. i misread

Aitch and Manatee are both correct BUT me and my teacher had a little debate over it, and she came out with "Je ne l'aurais pas dû leur prêter, mais je la demanderai pour ça" and i said exactly what Manatee and Aitch said.

it's a dodgy one this.

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linguist786

sorry once again! there was nothing wrong. i misread

Aitch and Manatee are both correct BUT me and my teacher had a little debate over it, and she came out with "Je ne l'aurais pas dû leur prêter, mais je la demanderai pour ça" and i said exactly what Manatee and Aitch said.

it's a dodgy one this.

I think your teacher's knowledge of French is rather questionable. "Je ne l'aurais pas dû leur prêter, mais je la demanderai pour ça" is simply not good French.

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linguist786

sorry once again! there was nothing wrong. i misread

Aitch and Manatee are both correct BUT me and my teacher had a little debate over it, and she came out with "Je ne l'aurais pas dû leur prêter, mais je la demanderai pour ça" and i said exactly what Manatee and Aitch said.

it's a dodgy one this.

Will you dare tell your teacher that there are 3 fairly grim errors in this?

The 2 verbs here are interesting in that they take quite different drect and indirect objects in English, but the same in French:

to lend something to someone
to ask someone for something

but

prêter quelquechose à quelqu'un
demander quelquechose à quelqu'un

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asianangel86

what a peculiar thing to say!
i'll have to think about this one and try to answer without asking my dad...
hmmm...
jab hu sanas ma gaye, hu oonder joi... or hu sanas ma gayti tar meh undaydo joyu
i wouldn't know which was grammatically correct. lol

lol that's good! it's different to the "style" of gujarati that i speak. (which is what i wanted to see!)

the way i would say it is:
"jyaare oo toilet maa gyoto, tyaare me underu joyutu" ('geti' if you're female)

i think in standard-spoken guj, however, it'd be:
"jyaare me sanas maa gayo hato, tyaare me undroo joyu hatu" - but that's too "posh" for me! lol
oh yeh - if you were a female, you'd change "gayo hato" to "gayee hati".

i noticed that you said "jab" - that's more urdu, isn't it? infact i'm sure it is.

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Aitch

Will you dare tell your teacher that there are 3 fairly grim errors in this?

I'm frankly appalled by what this implies about the standard of language teaching in some schools...

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Aitch

Will you dare tell your teacher that there are 3 fairly grim errors in this?

i know i know! she's terrible - sometimes we have to correct her! she's a newly-graduated woman. grrr..!

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linguist786

i know i know! she's terrible - sometimes we have to correct her! she's a newly-graduated woman. grrr..!

The example you quoted could be called quite tricky, but things get harder when you have to handle y and en as well, add negatives, make the verb(s) interrogative...

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Aitch

The example you quoted could be called quite tricky, but things get harder when you have to handle y and en as well, add negatives, make the verb(s) interrogative...

omg. imagine that. let's see if i can think of an example... (can you?)

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linguist786

omg. imagine that. let's see if i can think of an example... (can you?)

Picking up "i ought not to have lent it to them, but i shall ask her for it"

I used to have hundreds of books. I lent her ten of them but she never gave them back - she kept them all. I went to her house and saw several of them there. Why did she decide to keep them?... :biggrin:

Now you've all gone quiet...

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Aitch

Picking up "i ought not to have lent it to them, but i shall ask her for it"

I used to have hundreds of books. I lent her ten of them but she never gave them back - she kept them all. I went to her house and saw several of them there. Why did she decide to keep them?... :biggrin:

Here's my version:

Spoiler

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Manatee

Here's my version:

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J’avais des centaines de livres. Je lui en ai prêté une dizaine, mais elle ne (me) les a jamais rendus. Elle les a gardés, tous. Je suis allé chez elle et j’y en ai vu plusieurs. Pourquoi a-t-elle décidé de les garder?

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moojoo

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ben marcato le due cove, ma dolce

anyone?
Italian anyone?

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moojoo

ben marcato le due cove, ma dolce

anyone?
Italian anyone?

I think it should be voce (?)

Musical instructions "2 voices, well emphased, but sweet, gentle."

Except that I think voce is voice and 2 voices is due voci

see this: (about 5th post down)
http://chopinmusic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25&start=15

I may be wrong, I don't speak Italian and am doing this by deduction, not translation!

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