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Expert: Denise Pepin - 11/3/2009
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Denise, one last question of the day. I hope you are not tiring of my neediness?
"ça fait mal de voir." No object here? So let's see if I'm catching on. Is it "mal de" because the "de" is glued to "mal"?
Gosh, English is so easy and it isn't because it is my native language either. The French put everything into a box with no room for flexibility.
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Bonjour Joan,
You are right (vous avez raison. French is terrible sometimes ...hum, hum !)
Oui, Ça fait ....adjectif + de +verbe
De is glued to "mal" because mal is an adjective" and furthermore, these are "expressions" with "de" and some words that go with Ça fait are NOT adjectives !!. Ah those little boxes like you mentioned !
You can say
Ca fait mal de voir des pauvres.
Ça fait bizarre de parler français.
but
Ça fait plaisir de vous connaître.
[[so be careful, you cannot use all the adjectives you want. I'll find a list with
Ça fait ... + de + verb. Is that ok with you?]]
(it is like
je suis contente de parler français
you have an adjective + de + verb)
but please do not go there (we would need the subjunctive at one point and I want you to be able to sleep tonight :-)
Bonne chance and I'll get back with "ça fait ... de ..."
Ça me fait toujours plaisr de répondre à vos questions.
Denise
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