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Verbs with intransitive and transitive uses
Some verbs can be used intransitively (without an object) and transitively (with an object):
French | Translation |
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Les prix augmentent | Prices are going up |
La chaîne augmente ses prix | The store is increasing its prices |
Il rentre | He is going home |
Il rentre la voiture au garage | He is putting the car in the garage |
Elle sort | She is going out |
Elle sort son appareil-photo | She is getting her camera out |
Le moteur a calé | The engine stalled |
Alain a calé le moteur | Alain stalled the engine |
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- Use of ce, cela, ça as neutral pronouns
- Singular or plural when a number of individuals have one item each
- Talk about Prices
- Comparative and superlative forms of adverbs
- on as an alternative to the English passive
- Easy way of generating the Future and Conditional
- Ordinal numbers
- Use of the definite article to indicate a habitual action
- Past Tense
- Past participles used as adjectives with the verb être
- tard versus en retard
- « d'autres » VS « des autres »
- Differences in the use of numbers in French and English hundreds thousands millions billions
- Phrases used as adverbs
- Repetition of the definite article