niashi

[dreamy pine]

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[ocean knot]

me = for me

there

surely there was some clue on that

[blazing grove]

It's probably with the grammar section on pronouns by themselves in a previous book that I don't have 🥴

Will keep that in mind

[smoky cape]

Although you already got the answer to your question I'd like to think it's because Julien was not able to fix your car, he wasn't able to fix it for you (cause it was your car)
If it would've been any car, it wouldn't need to specify that he was fixing it for you..
I don't know :)

[pulsar cradle]

But where does the "me" exactly come from? is there a structure like "réparer qc à qn" like with "donner" (eg. Il me la donne / il me la répare)?

[ocean knot]

it's just an indirect object pronoun
you can't really translate it back into a whole structure

maybe with pour

[pulsar cradle]

Could you give me any other example where you'd use this?
I know that it's an indirect pronoun but I ve only seen this as a replacement for a structure with à etc.
Is there a special name for the use of an indirect pronoun in this way?

Il achète un livre pour moi
Il me l'achète ?

[ocean knot]

yep

[pulsar cradle]

Do you know any verbs where it's not possible to say that?

[ocean knot]

intransitive verbs

altho you can see them with te
"comme il t'a sauté ça !"

to say like si t'avais vu ça (t'en reviendrais pas)

[pulsar cradle]

What's the subject in this sentence
I'm a bit confused lol

Thanks for your help tho I think I understood how it's used (the exact same think exists in German as well so it comes kind of naturally to me, I just didn't know it's a thing in French too)