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[fleet wadi]

Please be patient

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[pallid nova]

Yeah

It just depends on the context because prepositions don’t translate and a lot of verbs use different prepositions between languages

For example, if you say that ‘à = to, de = from/of’ like in « Je parle à Anthony de ce travail (I’m talking to Anthony about this work) », you’re going to be confused about « Je pense à Emily (I think about Emily) »

Or about « Ça dépend de toi (It depends on you) ». You can’t say that ‘de = on’ because that’s just about how French uses a different preposition to English.