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harsh pulsarBOT
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sullen coyote
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avoir l'air + adjectif

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avoir l'air de + article indéfini

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he looks like a clown = il a l'air d'un clown

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well it's better to say on dirait un clown

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(pronounced cloune btw)

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il a l'air drôle means he looks like a funny person tho, not his appearance is funny

ivory agate
sullen coyote
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actually im not sure you can even use avoir l'air with a noun

shrewd trail
sullen coyote
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it's more common to use on dirait

shrewd trail
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are you natively french?

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oh im sorry it litterally says you're native

sullen coyote
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and then if you wanna use a pronoun like "he looks like me" it's il me ressemble

shrewd trail
sullen coyote
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would say

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well yea its close to that

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but it's very lexicalized, you should learn it as is

nocturne flare
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good explanations here already, but it reminded me of a sentence I can't wrap my head around, can someone please explain this:
"Voici de quoi a l'air ma boîte de réception"
I saw it in a Quebecois news report as a sub-title for the English phrase "this is what my inbox looks like", so is it a regionalism or an idiom the French would also use?

sullen coyote
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no its correct

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could also be voici ce à quoi ma boite de réception ressemble

nocturne flare
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okay, thank you

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I suppose it's useless to worry too much about the grammar in idioms, but for this one I had no idea how the sentence is formed, for your version it's a lot easier

sullen coyote
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It's not an idiom?

burnt tree
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Yeah it's an expression

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You can word it as « voici ce dont a l'air ma boite de réception » because it's a relative clause and you can have (stylistic) inversion there especially if the subject is longer than the verb but using « de quoi » makes it more, idk, question-like?

last dome
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t'as l'air d'être français

sullen coyote
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Qui

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Tu le vois dans les rôles de toute façon

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Et je vois pas ce que ça a de surprenant ici lol

last dome
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J'utilise juste "avoir l'air"

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Mdr

last dome