Bonsoir les francophones ! Qui peut m’expliquer le mot « ne » dans des phrases comme: « Elle chante mieux qu’on ne le pense. ». Lá le « ne » n’est pas parti d'une négation, mais qu’est-ce que c'est ?
I think about this far more often than is healthy.
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The collective noun for a group of ladybirds is a loveliness.
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Der Kobold (fast 6, erkennt mehrere Buchstaben, liest kurze Wörter aus bekannten Buchstaben) möchte jetzt rumänisch lernen. Ich hatte das auch mal angeschaut, aber bin über die ersten Wörter nich raus gekommen. Nachdem es jetzt aber mehrere Tage lang Thema war: Welche Ressourcen zum #SpracheLernenMitKind nutzt ihr so?
Bevor wir all in gehen gern erstmal niedrigschwelliges um zu schauen, ob das Interesse bleibt.
I think the latter sounds better to me 😉
There was someone a few years back who wrote a paper on the definitive order of adjectives in English - the pattern is apparently strong enough to reach firm conclusions. e.g. that a native speaker is unlikely to say "the brown big dog" and will almost certainly use "the big brown dog".
He came up with an order, like size-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose, but it was a fair bit longer than that. It's hard to search for so I haven't got a reference. Closest I have is the one I took that 6-element one from:
https://english.prof/adjective-order/
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The Ball Ist Dran 🤣 denglish for "The Ball Is In Your Court" #languagenerd
http://the-bee-writes.com/2025/05/01/the-ball-ist-dran-%f0%9f%a4%a3/
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