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Merci Maxine !

BTW there are additional meanings to those words on the page where the word is first displayed

eg tracer also lists “to plot, to map out”

But, unfortunately, these don’t display when the exercise is underway.

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OK - I’ll take a look at that also.

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Merci @Maxine_Downunder - if I review those two words one more time … aagghh!!!
I get them wrong every time!

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I have the same problem @ripcurlgirl. Now done!

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Love ya @Maxine_Downunder as they are up for review again :grinning:

Cheers!

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@Maxine_Downunder

Salut Maxine,

I have found another error - répérer - in French Verbs (Level 21) doesn’t exist - the correct infinitive is repérer without the acute/ aigu accent on the first “e”.

See http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais-anglais/repérer/67625 and
http://www.wordreference.com/fren/repérer .

I’m sure that @Yves_Codet could confirm this.

Cheers, Kim

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Thanks @ripcurlgirl - will fix it.

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Bonjour.
You are right, the correct spelling is repérer.
Edit: If there is an audio file maybe it should be checked.
Cordialement,
Yves

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@Maxine_Downunder

Hi again Maxine. There are 2 different verbs with “to return” given as their English counterparts:

retourner — (Level 16 - http://www.memrise.com/course/809/french-verbs/16/ ) and
rendre ------- (Level 21 - http://www.memrise.com/course/809/french-verbs/21/ )

I only just realised this as they both came up in the same review session.

Additional definitions that come up (after you get them wrong) are:

retourner — to go back, to return go back, to shake (emotionally)
rendre ------- to yield, to give back, to render, to convey

There is also a good reference here:

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Good pickup - thanks @ripcurlgirl. Will get onto this later today. Merci beaucoup!

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Sorry Maxine but I just found another one: both given as to weaken

faiblir ---- level 1 – http://www.memrise.com/course/809/french-verbs/1/ and
affaiblir - level 25 - http://www.memrise.com/course/809/french-verbs/25/

I think faiblir means to get weaker, to dwindle while affaiblir suits the given English counterpart to weaken.

@Yves_Codet - what do you think Yves?

Merci

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No need to apologise @ripcurlgirl - all good. As you will have noted I didn’t get to those previous corrections yesterday - I’m working too much! Now that I have 4 to fix up I’ll get onto it! Merci beaucoup.

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Hello, Kim.
You are right:
faiblir means “to become weaker, to weaken (intransitive)”,
affaiblir “to make weaker, to weaken (transitive)”.

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Merci Maxine, pas de problème.

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Merci Yves de la confirmation. :smiley:

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Changes now made - plus a couple of others which needed fixing too!

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Merci, tu es une perle !

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Je vous en prie!

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