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stuck oar
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à la ville would imply that you’re outside of the city and are heading into it; if you’re already in it, dans is fine
But really the issue is with the rest of sentence lol

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I’m guessing you were trying to translate, ‘I went for a walk’? Right well, « aller » takes être as an auxiliary, not avoir, and « une marche » would be march as in military marches, parade marches, stuff like that. Even so, « aller » wouldn’t be appropriate since it would mark direction and destination, not activity

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It can mean ‘walk, hike’ but only as a noun describing the activity like ‘Our two hour walk was easy (Notre marche de deux heures était facile)’

dapper garden
stuck oar
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I just sent it

stuck oar
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dapper garden
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@stuck oar im still confused

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If just a normal walk you say "se promener" then why it tells me this

stuck oar
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« marcher » implies travel

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as in going from one destination to another

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« se promener, se balader » just means walking in general as an activity

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when you say, 'I'm taking a walk', you're not going to a specific destination, you're just doing walking as an activity, are you not?

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There's a difference between, 'I'm taking a walk' and 'I'm walking to the store'

dapper garden
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And plus i tried to udestend better the pronouns part:
Je me promène (I go for a walk)
Tu te promènes (you go for a walk)
Il/Elle/On se promène (he/she/it goes for a walk)
Nous nous promenons (we go for a for a walk)
Vous vous promenez (you go for a walk)
Ils/Elles se promènent (they go for a walk)

So i need to write
-Je suis allé me promène
??

stuck oar
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You only conjugate once

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Are you a native English speaker, by any chance?

dapper garden
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No

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My level is around B2

stuck oar
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Alright so hopefully I can get this across

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which one is right:
'He wants to drink a coffee' or 'He wants drinks a coffee'?

dapper garden
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The first one

stuck oar
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Right and notice how the second verb 'to drink' is still in the infinitive form?

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You only conjugate once per clause, so if you already conjugated « aller », you don't need to conjugate « se promener »

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You do need to change the reflexive pronoun to fit the subject but you don't conjugate the verb in any way whatsoever

dapper garden
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Okey so the phrase is
Je suis allé se promener
With infinity

stuck oar
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me promener

dapper garden
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Yeah right

stuck oar
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again, you change the reflexive pronoun but that's it

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you don't change anything with the verb