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Usages of il y a
Il y a deux jours, nous avons parlé de ce projet d'avenir.
Two days ago, we talked about this future project.
Il y a un an, nous n'utilisions pas cette application.
A year ago, we did not use this app.
Nous avons fait cette réservation il y a deux semaines, parce qu’aucune chambre double n’était disponible avant.
We made this reservation two weeks ago, because no double room was available before.
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“How does grammatical gender work in French?”
Every French noun is either masculine or feminine, and this affects the articles and adjectives used with it. "Le" is used with masculine nouns and "la" with feminine ones. Adjectives also change form to match — for example, "petit" (masc.) becomes "petite" (fem.).
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