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[steep plume]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

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Make it descriptive, including relevant context, but also to the point. This way you improve your chances of getting a more relevant and specific answer.

[west cipher]

can you provide an example?

[obtuse bear]

it’s triggered by the preceding verb

essayer de par exemple

[dawn grove]

Nous avons faite était de visiter la Ronde

[west cipher]

hmm... this sentence isn't grammatically correct

where did you get it from?

[dawn grove]

From my school

Which one is wrong?

[west cipher]

ahh...

i see now

there was some context missing

[obtuse bear]

in this case, you can’t just have the bare infinitive visiter, just like in English you need to often need to say “to visit” rather than just visit

“the first thing we did was to visit la ronde”

“we did was to visit…” makes no sense

[dawn grove]

Is it always like that, like always use "de"? + Infinitive?

[eager echo]

De introduces an explanation on what the thing is about.

So here, you explain what the first thing they did was. Since we have an infinitive clause, you add de.

[dawn grove]

Ahh so it is optional?

So I can remove de?

[eager echo]

Nope.