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i speak zereo french but i needed a phrase for assignment can somebody please confirm if I have translated "And god created woman" correctly
Et dieu creer femme
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Holy Cats of Egypt!
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ohhh so i was pretty close just got the creater bit wrong
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Is the verb "créer" unusual is it a regular 'er' verb? PB did you want the phrase in past tense? Would it be something like "et Dieu a crée la femme"? I'm tres rusty so I defer to FC.
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I thought all french translated as "I fart in your general direction!"  (for the Monty fans, lol)
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
Something pithy!
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The verb is in the "passé simple" tense because that phrase is a direct quote from the Bible. The passé simple is used in formal writing; if it had been some other/spoken expression like "God created a real big mess here" you could use the regular past tense. I never really understood where the line was between using the regular past tense and the passé simple when writing, although I suspect "I farted in your general direction" might not be worthy of the literary passé simple.
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must... refrain.... from.... using my driving around in downtown Montréal vocabulary.
okay... peaceful thoughts peaceful thoughts
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