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little cobaltBOT Oct 31, 2025, 9:11 AM

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swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:12 AM

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Reverso m’a dit.

English: "Okay, but right now I am cold and tired."
French: "Mais, là, j'ai froid et je suis fatiguée."
English: "Close the window, I am cold."
French: "Ferme la fenêtre, j'ai froid."
English: "I would have said I am hungry, that I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something, but she gave me much more—she gave me her grateful love."
French: "Je l'ai dit j'ai faim, que je meurs, je suis froid, je suis en la douleur, ou quelque chose, mais elle m'a donné beaucoup plus: elle m'a donné son amour reconnaissant."

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Je test des phrases très simple « I am cold. » « I am hungry. »

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Je sais « j’ai froid » ça c’est correct. Mais les 3ème? Je confuse. « Être froid » c’est possible pour un situation vraiment spécifique ou ça c’est un error de l’appi?

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:16 AM

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so, this one is possible but the meaning changes.
"avoir froid" is to be cold as a feeling
"être froid" is to be cold to the touch, it's about your skin and organs actual temperature

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:16 AM

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Être froid means your skin is cold to the touch, you're cold from an external viewpoint. Avoir froid is a feeling you have, something you are experiencing internally

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:16 AM

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Although there are other mistakes here
"je l'ai dit j'ai faim" is incorrect

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"je suis en la douleur" as well (wtf)

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:17 AM

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pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:17 AM

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yeah it's translating token by token I feel like

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"je suis faim" NEVER occurs

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:18 AM

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I am hunger

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Reverso is really bad a lot of the time lol

jaunty heart Oct 31, 2025, 9:18 AM

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Faim is a noun here. Not an adjective which would take être in that case.

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:19 AM

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Straight up entirely unrelated sentences sometimes

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Not even just a mistranslation

jaunty heart Oct 31, 2025, 9:19 AM

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Reverso needs to be taken with an enormous grain of salt.

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:19 AM

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Basically you need to already know the language

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Lol

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:19 AM

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pure ivy "je suis faim" NEVER occurs

Right? Because I know it’s not a direct translation from english. So I was confused. I use Reverso for the conjugation spelling list only and want to see if the translator section was good or not.

sterile hinge Oct 31, 2025, 9:20 AM

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Regarding the original question

Est-ce que Reverso un bon appli pour apprendre le français?
The answer is easy, translation tools do not teach language

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:20 AM

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Translators in general- yea

jaunty heart Oct 31, 2025, 9:20 AM

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LLM bots don't either.

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:21 AM

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You're never going to get a translator that will get it right all the time. Most will be wrong more often than not

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:21 AM

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they can be useful tools based on how you use them, but given those examples, I would say don't use this one lol

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:22 AM

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sterile hinge Regarding the original question > Est-ce que Reverso un bon appli pour apprendre...

Right! My fave conjugation website was taken down so I was looking for an other one. Something that can give me a list to check my verb endings.

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:22 AM

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Wordreference

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But any will do, generally speaking

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Most conjugations are straightforward
Only issues tend to come up with broken verbs, ones that have multiple forms for example

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:23 AM

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yeah tbh you'd be hard pressed finding a conjugation website with incorrect info, UX is like the main factor here

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I was gonna say the only thing that may be sometimes wonky on conjugation websites is verbs with multiple conjugations

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:24 AM

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Yeah

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You can test with asseoir

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Wordreference is a site you should already be using though so it should be easier to integrate if you want a dedicated spot to check

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I usually just google "[verbe] conjugaison" tho lol

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:27 AM

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j'ai assis /tu as assis il/elle a assis nous avons assis vous avez assis ils/elles ont assis.
Looks right?

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:27 AM

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passé composé is not the one you're looking for

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this one doesn't change

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:28 AM

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Yeah

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:28 AM

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ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:29 AM

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Wordref handles it like this

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swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:29 AM

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pure ivy this one doesn't change

lol! You are right.

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It’s 3am here. 😂

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:30 AM

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Mildly sad they don't include assir but it's practically a different verb tbf

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So no one really does

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:31 AM

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What does assir mean?

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:31 AM

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It's the same

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:31 AM

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To sit.

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:31 AM

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Well, to seat, more like

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To sit is more s'asseoir/s'assir

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:32 AM

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Ahh! aja

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:32 AM

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one is transitive, the other one is not

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:32 AM

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(assir is very regional, also)

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:33 AM

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For which location?

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:33 AM

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Quebec mainly that i know of

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:33 AM

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yeah I don't think I ever heard that one IRL

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:33 AM

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I mostly heard it as "assis-toi"

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Also, the asseoir conjugation usage is... Weird

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Certain ones are more common in certain regions & situations

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:36 AM

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for instance in France
you're more likely to hear the form "assois" in the indicative (je m'assois)
and the form "assieds" in the imperative (assieds-toi)

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:36 AM

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Oh!

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:36 AM

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Though nous/vous is different for indicative

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Iirc

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Cuz in Quebec it tends to remain the o forms in nous and vous

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:37 AM

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right, "assoyons/assoyez" sounds... wrong x)

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:37 AM

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pure ivy for instance in France you're more likely to hear the form "assois" in the indic...

This I’ve heard before. But maybe also assis-toi? Because when spoken quickly I don’t catch the full word pronunciation just the main idea.

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:38 AM

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not in France but maybe other regions

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:38 AM

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More likely assieds-toi

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Unless your ear is properly used to telling the difference it's unlikely anything that sounds like assis-toi actually is

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:39 AM

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ebon coral Cuz in Quebec it tends to remain the o forms in nous and vous

Both spelling ways are used/understood?

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:39 AM

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Yes

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At the very least understood

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:40 AM

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ebon coral Unless your ear is properly used to telling the difference it's unlikely anythin...

I was in Bordeaux so probably not assis-toi?

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:40 AM

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No

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:41 AM

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for some verbs, some forms are more common orally vs written
je paie is more common in written form
je paye is more common orally
this is the kind of thing you're really only gonna get with experience, don't worry too much about it

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:42 AM

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pure ivy for some verbs, some forms are more common orally vs written je paie is more com...

I remember this one.
I had a prof who made us write both down during exams so we would remember exists.

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:42 AM

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Ya

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:42 AM

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But the oignon spelling is optional right? Personal preference?

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:43 AM

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Eh

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Formally yes

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But just about everyone ignores the reforms and you'll often look odd following them

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Up to you ultimately tho

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:44 AM

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I only know one way and I can recognise it if it’s written down the other form.

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:44 AM

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French people are likely to correct you if they're not familiar with the reforms

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:45 AM

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they love to argue about their language even if they haven't studied it for decades distrait

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:47 AM

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I think bad conjugation sites sometimes also make up conjugations for broken verbs? But that's so rare that i might be imagining it

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The vast majority are at least half decent

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:47 AM

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Chipote! I learnt it here when I asked a grammar question and the natives were deciding which one was which. 🤭

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:47 AM

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Ya

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They like to correct stuff that's already correct quite a bit lol

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:48 AM

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I like when they discuss. I can learn variations on the same idea.

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:49 AM

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I got blocked by a native yesterday because I told them to not correct an already correct sentence pleurehalal

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:49 AM

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I had a native do that once and when I asked for their explanation they were like "oh it's complicated rules you wouldn't understand..." (I knew the rules which is why I was correct in the first place lol)

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:49 AM

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pure ivy I got blocked by a native yesterday because I told them to not correct an alread...

I saw that. 🫂

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I got corrected over a , vs . For my sentence. 😂 it was super funny.

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:50 AM

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It's always a little baffling seeing natives "correct" sentences to be unnatural

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Just be wary if you see anyone bring up l'Académie lol

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:52 AM

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ebon coral Just be wary if you see anyone bring up l'Académie lol

Haha! I realised early on it’s not the actual french grammar people, it’s a french thing. I thought it was their equivalent of Merriam Webster

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:52 AM

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Yeah they don't have a single linguist

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It's just old authors and stuff that won a popularity contest to not have to actually work

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:53 AM

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Oh dear

pure ivy Oct 31, 2025, 9:53 AM

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ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:54 AM

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They pay them to just sit around and occasionally complain about how the language is being used

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Basically

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 9:54 AM

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Prescriptive not descriptive. Oh dear.

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 9:56 AM

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If you're searching for resources, l'Académie is likely THE most prescriptivist resource, OQLF is pretty midway, wiktionary is pretty much full on descriptivism

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CNRTL tends to be quite good for descriptivism as well, but can be hard to read especially if you're less familiar with the language

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 10:01 AM

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I will research these! Thanks for all the help tonight.

ebon coral Oct 31, 2025, 10:03 AM

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OQLF tends to be really good for grammar stuff

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 10:04 AM

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Can never study enough grammar. Always good to stay on my toes about it. blobcheer

half nest Oct 31, 2025, 4:52 PM

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swift creek Right! My fave conjugation website was taken down so I was looking for an other ...

J’ai trouvé ce site web en ligne. https://conjugaison.bescherelle.com/

Bescherelle Conjugaison | Le conjugueur Bescherelle, la référence...

La conjugaison de plus de 9 000 verbes français à tous les modes et tous les temps, sous forme de tableaux de conjugaison simples et efficaces.

swift creek Oct 31, 2025, 4:53 PM

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half nest J’ai trouvé ce site web en ligne. https://conjugaison.bescherelle.com/

Ahhh oui! Je 'lai oublié. Bescherelle- dictionary A great resource.

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