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[vast lodge]

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[hot coral]

btw it's a manga if that explains the weird emphatic writing

[native pond]

Le fait de nous être cognés = le fait que nous nous sommes cognés.
You can have an infinitive clause after de.

Je t'ai dit d'attendre encore un peu.

[hot coral]

ahh so we use the subject just as it is but the verb stays in infinitive

and the adj gets declined accordingly

[gusty condor]

it's lacking a que tbh

or punctuation

[hot coral]

prob punctuation xD

[gusty condor]

after comprendre

comprendre is the end of a clause

"le fait de nous être cognées" and "ce rdv" are subjects

faire partie de is un verbe d'état, similar to être

i mean ig its not un verbe d'état but its similar to être

[native pond]

Ah, I didn't realize the issue with the sentence.

[hot coral]

ah yeah no that's mb i missed a few dots after comprendre 😭

but i think i got it

[gusty condor]

tout means everything here
can be translated as "it all"

[hot coral]

soooo could i say
le fait de je être raté était qu'un épreuve de sa malveillance
does that work

[gusty condor]

no

[hot coral]

😔

[native pond]

Nous in de nous être cognés is an object pronoun. A reflexive/reciprocal pronoun to be precise.

[hot coral]

OHHHHHHHHHH

i thought it was a normal subject pronoun

[gusty condor]

"the act of i to be missed was just a challenge of his/her/its malicious intent"

[hot coral]

no that makes sense

[native pond]

That was why I put "que nous nous sommes cognés" as a translation.

With two nous's.

[hot coral]

my brain blurred that out 😭

mmmm so you'd say "le fait d'être raté" instead

[gusty condor]

yea its a reciprocal reflexive, shows they did it to each other

[hot coral]

i mean all in all that sentence does feel weird in general

[native pond]

Besides, cogner is an avoir verb. 😉

[gusty condor]

needs a pronoun

[gusty condor]

the first one you sent? it's perfectly normal

[gusty condor]

should be le fait de se rater or le fait que nous nous sommes ratés

the former uses infinitive so it doesn't have a subject, the latter is conjugated so it needs a subject

[hot coral]

hmmm ok one sec i'm processing the info xD

[gusty condor]

ig it can be le fait de nous rater too

[hot coral]

ahh yeah my sentence was completely off then
i was trying to say like "the fact that i failed is nothing but proof of his malice"

[native pond]

Le fait d'être raté can work if you mean you are a failure, a loser.

[gusty condor]

ah well rater is only used to mean fail informally

and not without an object

[hot coral]

https://tenor.com/view/anya-forger-taking-notes-oomfie-spy-x-family-memo-gif-8287618218761733944

[gusty condor]

"le fait que j'ai échoué n'est que preuve de son malveillance"

or n'est rien que ?

qu'une?

also you can just say mon échec

French loves nouns

[hot coral]

yesss that I got
the structure I'm confused of is using infinitive like that
but I guess it only really works with reflexive pronouns

[gusty condor]

nah

le fait d'échouer

or d'avoir échoué

but that doesnt have a subject so it sounds like it refers to people in general

"le fait d'échouer n'est pas un signe de faiblesse"

or just l'échec

it doesnt make a lot of sense if you translate it with "the fact that/to..."

but it translates to "failing"

[hot coral]

i got it now
and in the original sentence it's like "le fait d'être cogné"
but then it specified the pronoun "le fait de nous être cognés" because "se cogner"

yea no my troubles were because of verb incompetence 😭

[gusty condor]

it was mostly because you didn't realize nous was the object really

[hot coral]

yeah that too xD