#phonso (corrigez-moi pls 🥲)

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still pastureBOT
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peak vine
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Les deux sont corrects c’est vraiment aléatoire selon la personne.
Moi ça m’arrive de dire l’un ou l’autre 🙂

open patrol
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quoi qu'il en soit is like whatever/whichever it may be

lime geyser
spring aspen
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“Quoi qu’il en soit” -> regardless

lime geyser
spring aspen
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It is a fixed expression, but it does make sense

Quoi -> what(ever)
Qu’ -> that
Il -> it
En -> of it/of the thing
Soit -> may be

lime geyser
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i see

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thank u

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how does 'soit' mean 'may be' tho

tough phoenix
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The French subjunctive can map onto English verbs with modals which is 'may' in this case

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Modals do a lot of lifting in English and they cover a number of things that would be separate in French so finding equivalents either in terms of meaning, grammar, or both, can be difficult

lime geyser
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So the only solution is to stop translating and start thinking in French?

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Do you ever think in French

tough phoenix
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Essentially

lime geyser
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Or do you personally translate in ur mind

tough phoenix
lime geyser
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Cheeky

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Ok thank u

tough phoenix
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You can try and have comparisons by their meanings but not link them.

lime geyser
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So when you hear let’s say ‘gratte-ciel’ do u think of a skyscraper in ur mind or do u think of a translation of the word in English or

tough phoenix
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For example, « entendre/écouter » map pretty well to 'hear/listen' in English where the former indicates just the act of perceiving while the latter can imply paying attention to the noise with a certain intention, but you can't link them definitively. « écouter » takes a direct object whereas 'listen' takes an indirect object; asking why one is direct transitive while the other is indirect transitive will get you no where so it's better to just go, 'That's how it works in their languages 🤷'

tough phoenix
lime geyser
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That’s cheeky

lime geyser
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So what did u do to start thinking in French

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Anything particular or does it just come

tough phoenix
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You have to train associations but for the most part it just comes with using the language.

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With new words I'll start out thinking of an English equivalent but the more I use the word the less I have to go to English and the more the object appears

lime geyser
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That’s how fluency works ig

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Thank u thank u

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Teaching me the c2 method fr