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[jaunty cosmos]

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[true vortex]

idk what that's supposed to mean

[dire shore]

my guess is that it though "To" is someone's name...?

[true vortex]

yeah but it doesn't make sense in context

[dire shore]

it's supposed to be ''...quand tu es dans l'école"

[sweet hearth]

thats what I wrote

[dire shore]

weird...

[dire shore]

yeah, it thought it was name lol

also, ''tu'', not ''to''

[sweet hearth]

yeah mb

but what does To mean anyway? The corrector doesn't seem to notice anything wrong with to

not including that it should be capitalized

[dire shore]

it doesn't mean anything in French

[sweet hearth]

ok

[dire shore]

that's why the corrector thought it was a proper noun

[sweet hearth]

got it, thanks

[dire shore]

👍

[quiet sand]

The sentence has other mistakes as well. If this is an automatic correction tool, it's evidently not doing a great job.

[sweet hearth]

what is it

[zealous hollow]

I believe it's a corrector for native mistakes, so it's having a harder time parsing all the non-native errors, especially together

What did you throw in it originally

[near phoenix]

« écouter » takes a direct object, not an indirect one for example

We listen to our teacher in English mais nous écoutons notre professeur en français.

[sweet hearth]

Surtout quand to <- (spelling mistake) es dans l'école, tu dois écouter à ton profeseur.

[zealous hollow]

Ok

Dans l'école means "inside of the school" aka you don't have to listen to them outside of the building

[sweet hearth]

what Verb would be used to take undirect objects? Liko not to OUR teacher but to ALL the teachers

[zealous hollow]

What

[near phoenix]

the indirect part is the preposition

[sweet hearth]

ahhhhh

[near phoenix]

an indirect object is just preposition + object
a direct object is just, well, the object

[sweet hearth]

so à isnt correct here, right?

[near phoenix]

it isn't no

[sweet hearth]

new auto correct, this is how it looks like when it corrected my sentence

[zealous hollow]

Were you going for specifically inside the building or in the school environment

[sweet hearth]

both

[zealous hollow]

The first excludes the second

[sweet hearth]

ok, then lets say you need to listen to the teachers all the time

is that better

[zealous hollow]

À l'école = in school/at school
Dans l'école = inside of the school building

[sweet hearth]

weakness detected: prepositions

[zealous hollow]

Dans is usually physically inside of something

[sweet hearth]

what about "en"?

[zealous hollow]

Very very situational

Has many, many uses

[sweet hearth]

what does that mean

[sweet hearth]

do you know where I can find a list of them

[zealous hollow]

LawlessFrench

[sweet hearth]

ok

thanks

[zealous hollow]

Or wordreference tbh

https://www.wordreference.com/fren/en

https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/en-index/

[sweet hearth]

I understand none of them