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harsh reef
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Please correct me If i am wrong i am not 100% sure !!

Aller basically means going.
" I am going to the cinema"
je vais au cinéma

But aller can also be used to build a future tense similiar to the Englisch "will be going to"

"I am going to cook"
je vais cuisiner

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Thats how i explained it to myself using English

dense terrace
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so its actual word is aller?

harsh reef
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Yes!

dense terrace
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so

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if i want to say i am going to go

harsh reef
dense terrace
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do i say je vais aller

harsh reef
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"I am going to go there" should translate to "je vais y aller"

dense terrace
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if i want to say

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i am going to go to Istanbul

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do i say

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À je vais aller Istanbul

harsh reef
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Almost! je vais aller à Istanbul

But only If its in the near future just like in english too

placid rose
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yes

dense terrace
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so its pretty similar with english

harsh reef
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Would be great If someone of the more advanced speakers could confirm what i said :)

harsh reef
dense terrace
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i wish pronouncations were easy too

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thanks for teaching

harsh reef
dense terrace
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in this sentence

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why is À at the beginning of the sentence

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instead of being like "Quoi me sert encore de prier à Notre-Dame?

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is it because to rhyme the song?

harsh reef
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I assume it refers to a different part than the place

autumn hollow
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Servir à quelque chose means to be useful in something / to aid in something

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À quoi ça sert = What is is good for/What good does it do

dense terrace
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so is it like a phrase

harsh reef
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Yes :)

dense terrace
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oh okay

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thanks

harsh reef
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It has nothing to do with the location in this case

dense terrace
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tysm

median elbow
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like how we say "What are you listening to?" not "What are you listening?"

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same thing

dense terrace
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oh

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merci

warm pendant
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Just to add, if we’re talking ‘will + verb’ that’s going to be the futur simple.

warm pendant
# dense terrace why is À at the beginning of the sentence

Just in case you weren’t aware, prepositions can’t end a sentence so they tend to be moved up to the front of the clause. For example, English will find, ‘Who are you talking to?’ acceptable but French won’t. Instead, French will move that preposition to the front to make « À qui parles-tu ? ». Weirdly, this structure also exists in English though for some it’s considered a bit more upper class: ‘To whom are you speaking?’

harsh reef
warm pendant
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Yes but what you explained was another verb entirely, called the futur proche (near future). Now for the most part the futur simple answer the futur proche are interchangeable but there exists a slight difference between the two: the futur proche is seen as closer in time and more sure to happen.

dense terrace
median elbow
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most prepositions anyways