daneloo2

[tropic sable]

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.

[high hollow]

To talk about a conversation you HAD, you'll use the past (passé composé) for she said , then translate the speech.
Elle a dit "bonjour Marie!"

[autumn vortex]

In a book? Horribly

It looks kinda like
— Bonjour Marie! a-t-elle dit. Je vais au supermarché, est-ce que tu veux venir avec moi?

[mild stratus]

Oh, that’s..confusing, wow. But thank you both!

[high hollow]

Yep that's confusing x)

If you place she said before the speech, you write the pronoun before the verb, as I wrote it "Elle a dit".
But if you write the text "Bonjour Marie!" first, you have to switch the verb and the pronoun after. So as @autumn vortex said, "a-t-elle dit"