Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

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Reply 4261

L'Evil Fish

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Original post by Bambirina

I don't really understand your question, but it's always essayer de + verbe infinitif.

As I said, you always need the " de " or it doesn't make sense.

Je comprends :smile:

"J'ai essayé de mangé les frites mais je ne les pouvais pas finir car ils sont...."

Reply 4262

Original post by yarshad

Hmmm tbh honest no, I just assumed ahaha, maybe it's en el hogar instead

Hmmm I might have heard "to be fairly honest" before
but "to be honestly honest" ? ;D

Reply 4263

Bambirina

Original post by L'Evil Fish

Je comprends :smile:

"J'ai essayé de mangé les frites mais je ne les pouvais pas finir car ils sont...."

J'ai essayé de manger les frites mais je ne pouvais pas les finir car elles étaient ...

It's " manger " because it has to be verbe infinitif, not participe passé.
" Je ne pouvais pas les finir " is just the right order.
" frites " is feminine so it's " elles " and you have to use " étaient " because you used past tenses in your sentence so you can't use the present.

You could also use " je n'ai pas pu les finir ". But as long as you use past tenses, it's fine, it makes sense :smile:

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Reply 4264

L'Evil Fish

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Original post by Bambirina

J'ai essayé de manger les frites mais je ne pouvais pas les finir car elles étaient ...

It's " manger " because it has to be verbe infinitif, not participe passé.
" Je ne pouvais pas les finir " is just the right order.
" frites " is feminine so it's " elles " and you have to use " étaient " because you used past tenses in your sentence so you can't use the present.

The manger was a typo! :colondollar:

I meant that too! :redface:

And my mistake again :lol:

I always make mistakes like that when someone who speaks French is here

Reply 4265

username1054067

Original post by thatitootoo

Hmmm I might have heard "to be fairly honest" before
but "to be honestly honest" ? ;D

lmaoo, typo. I wasn't thinking :mmm:

Reply 4266

Original post by yarshad

lmaoo, typo. I wasn't thinking :mmm:

Oh I've had my fair share of those :rolleyes:

Haven't seen you on this thread before :redface:

So are you #Teamspanish #Teamgerman or neutral?? :wink:

Reply 4267

Original post by thatitootoo

Is "umzugen" even a word? I said it above but you/Ronove did not correct me :redface:

'der Umzug' aber 'umziehen' doch :wink:

They're all words, but to be honest, I associate them all with moving house.

However, interesting fact- I don't speak German fluently! I am having lots of fun reading entries in my dictionary, but I don't think I've found the word you want yet.

Reply 4268

Original post by thatitootoo

Oh I've had my fair share of those :rolleyes:

Haven't seen you on this thread before :redface:

So are you #Teamspanish #Teamgerman or neutral?? :wink:

It's not a competition! All languages are beautiful!

Don't turn into a certain troll!

Reply 4269

username1054067

Original post by thatitootoo

Oh I've had my fair share of those :rolleyes:

Haven't seen you on this thread before :redface:

So are you #Teamspanish #Teamgerman or neutral?? :wink:

#EquipoEspanol :biggrin:

y tu?

Reply 4270

AquisM

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Original post by thatitootoo

Oh I've had my fair share of those :rolleyes:

Haven't seen you on this thread before :redface:

So are you #Teamspanish #Teamgerman or neutral?? :wink:

We have teams now?! :eek:

Reply 4271

Original post by Octopus_Garden

It's not a competition! All languages are beautiful!

Don't turn into a certain troll!

Original post by yarshad

#EquipoEspanol :biggrin:

y tu?

Lololol I know who you're talking about!! xP
But it's only for good fun...You could be #Teamgerman captain? :wink:

Ohhh cool...uhmm I'm much more associated with DEUTSCH! :biggrin:

Reply 4272

Original post by AquisM

We have teams now?! :eek:

If we did, I dunno what would happen to the actual polyglots!

Would they have to be scheduled to do each language on a different night?

Reply 4273

username976741

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Original post by tess_rach

No, I'm just not that good at maths - I didn't understand half the stuff when we did it in lessons with worked solutions, let alone in a two hour exam.

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Aww well, you have great grades otherwise!

Reply 4274

Original post by AquisM

We have teams now?! :eek:

We got stripped of our special helpers status'
We must take it upon ourselves to introduce other fun stuff :wink:

AQUISMO

Reply 4275

Ich würde im Bus weitergehen!

move along
(along pavement, bus etc) weitergehen

Original post by thatitootoo

Lololol I know who you're talking about!! xP
But it's only for good fun...You could be #Teamgerman captain? :wink:

Ohhh cool...uhmm I'm much more associated with DEUTSCH! :biggrin:

nein danke

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Reply 4276

BaconEmperor

Heyy fellow linguists!
Can't believe I never saw this thread before :tongue:

I know upper intermediate French (finished the A2 this year) and upper beginners Italian (finished the GCSE this year) and in September I'll be studying Economics and Russian at uni (hopefully!) :biggrin:

Reply 4277

Original post by Octopus_Garden

Ich würde im Bus weitergehen!

nein danke

Ich weiss nicht sicher, ob ich dich gut verstehen habe?!

Ohhhh you fun spoilers ><

Reply 4278

L'Evil Fish

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Original post by BaconEmperor

Heyy fellow linguists!
Can't believe I never saw this thread before :tongue:

I know upper intermediate French (finished the A2 this year) and upper beginners Italian (finished the GCSE this year) and in September I'll be studying Economics and Russian at uni (hopefully!) :biggrin:

I made those threads, I didn't know you hadn't any idea about this place :eek:

Reply 4279

BaconEmperor