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Old 09-26-2011, 10:23 PM   #3
Rizla
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Originally Posted by sovre View Post
The result is that if you want to get the definition of a French word like L'ALLURE or L'HOMME, you must yourself delete the L', so that only ALLURE or HOMME remains, and then access the dictionary yourself to look up the word.
French is complicated. I blame their Kings and academics.

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Originally Posted by readingglasses View Post
How are verb conjugations defined, in French, since you used it? If you look up subjunctive "fasses" does it say "2nd person subjunctive faire - 'to do' " ?
"fasses" returns the infinitive "faire" with several pages of definition. It does not return any information about the conjugaison. For French, that would require a separate book

I have to frig about a bit sometimes, but overall I've found the dictionaries to be excellent.

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