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Les fans aiment la star ; ils la traquent tout le temps.

Les fans aiment la star ; ils la traquent tout le temps.
The fans love the star; they stalk her all the time.
From Lesson 225:Intensity and consequence (tellement que, tant que)·French

Questions & Answers about Les fans aiment la star ; ils la traquent tout le temps.

How could we connect these two ideas using tellement que (so much that) from this lesson?
You would put tellement right after the verb aiment, and que before the result. It becomes: Les fans aiment tellement la star qu'ils la traquent tout le temps (The fans love the star so much that they stalk her all the time). Notice how que changes to qu' before ils.
The translation says "they stalk her". What if the star is a man?
The word une star is always feminine in French, regardless of the person's actual gender. Because the noun is feminine, the pronoun replacing it must also be feminine. This is why we use la in ils la traquent, even if the celebrity is a man.
Could I use toujours instead of tout le temps here?
Yes, but their placement in the sentence is different. Tout le temps (all the time) typically goes at the end of the phrase. If you used toujours (always), it would go directly after the conjugated verb: ils la traquent toujours. Tout le temps also adds a slightly stronger feeling of a continuous, non-stop action.
Does traquer mean "to track" or "to stalk"?
Both, but when applied to people in everyday French, it means "to stalk", "to hound", or "to hunt down". It is a strong word. If you just want to track a package or an order in the mail, you would use a different verb like suivre (to follow).

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