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[Provost Harrison]

Driving Standards Agency?

[Nubclear]

Quick French question. Is this how you say "I don't have a pen":

Je ne avoir un stylo pas

?

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by axi
The comrades in France are enjoying what we here in Greece are only hoping for: a radical revolutionary pole inside the left, which has prevailed over the bankrupt reformist parties of the parliamentary left.

Actually I think that, as Spiffor claimed, people can no longer identify with the major parties and are showing their frustration by voting for extremes, on both sides. That result is maybe not so much a success of the far edges but a failure of the main parties.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Quick French question. Is this how you say "I don't have a pen"

Je n'ai pas de stylo

or

Je n'ai pas de crayon

(I always confuse "pen" and "pencil"; "Crayon" is the one that doesn't use ink)

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Actually I think that, as Spiffor claimed, people can no longer identify with the major parties and are showing their frustration by voting for extremes, on both sides. That result is maybe not so much a success of the far edges but a failure of the main parties.

Absolutely. Many people vote on the extremes not because they really want a revolution, nor even because they want collectivization, but because they think the main parties are corrupt incapables, who don't care for the well being of the common man.

[Nubclear]

Hmm...Our French teacher says that to say "dont" would be "ne verb pas". Example:

"Vous ne cherchez pas" - You don't look. Or some such.

[Bereta_Eder]

It's like your teacher says.

Je n'ai pas de stylo (stylo is pen Spiffor)

You wrote:

Je ne avoir un stylo pas

Your two mistakes are:
1) put the verb in the right clause (heh now my own english vocabulary is too poor to describe it)
Not "Avoir" but "ai"

2) And you should have put the "pas" after the verb just like your teacher said

[Provost Harrison]

That's right, but there is a contraction with two vowels being next to each other. Je n'ai pas...

[Spiffor]

Exactly. And in the sentence above, it should be:
"je ne avoir pas" (very crudely, to the point is incorrect).
"Avoir" in the first Person singular is "ai". That would give "Je ne ai pas" (still too crude to be good).
"ne" removes the mute E at the end of the word when followed by a vowel, and replaces it with an apostrophe. Result is:

"Je n'ai pas"

[Bereta_Eder]

A little funny offtopic story: when I was giving my first exams in French, I got unbelievably nervous during the oral exams. So nervous in fact that I forgot nearly all the french words I knew!!! No joking.
Not wanting to let the interviewr think that I didn't know any more words in french and in a jerk motion since I was really frustrated I told her:

J'ai oublie mon repertoire de mots!!!

LOL... I was so nervous that not only had I forgotten most of the french words, I had also forgotten the word to describe it:" vocabulaire".

So I invented "repertoire de mots" to decribe it LOL

The result was that my interviwer laughed, I felt even more badly but then she actually encouraged me and everything went OK. She actually gave me a high mark - out of sheer pity and amusement no doubt

[Bereta_Eder]

BTW That was in Leondios, Axi

[Ben Kenobi]

Je n'ai pas de stylo.

vs.

Je n'ai pas un stylo.



Aussi, un stylo en Anglais est << pen >> et un crayon est << pencil >>

Je suis oublie mes lecons de grammaire francais.

[Mercator]

That would be J'ai oublier mes le&ccedils de grammaire français...

Unless you meant Je suis oublié de mes le&ccedils de grammaire français, but I really doubt that.

[Ben Kenobi]

tense

'have forgotten'

J'ai oublier?

[Mercator]

Oui (Paiktis just used it too)