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in English you can change the infinitive of words like to hep into helper so that you are the one helping how do you do this in french.
Sorry that probably doesn't make much sense, but i don't now how else to explin it. If you know please reply soon.
Thanx
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Re:in English you can change the infinitive of words like to hep into helper so that you are the one helping how do you do this in french.
In french, we don't have such forms to say things...Help -> an Helper, that's so easy...But in french no, we have other nouns to say that.
an helper in french is generally associated with the jobs name. So maybe you can say that "Helper" in french could be translated in "Doctor", following what you exactly want to say.
This case is more complicated than English, you could just say "Sommeone who help", "Quelqun qui aide", and everybody would understand you ;-)
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Re:Re:in English you can change the infinitive of words like to hep into helper so that you are the one helping how do you do this in french.
Hi Quentin! Welcome to MLE!
I think perhaps you may have misunderstood what Rachel was asking (or I did--Rachel, let me know if I'm lying about you) I think Rachel was asking about the -er suffix we use to turn an act into the person who does it: Help + er = helper: one who helps; teach + er = teacher: one who teaches, etc. I know, for example, that French has the euse / eur endings and you have to use the one appropriate to the gender. So, for example, your verb moquer, to mock or to tease can be turned into the person who does it: moqueur, a man who teases, or moqueuse, a woman who teases. Likewise, masser, to massage, can become masseur and masseuse, a man or woman who massages. I'm sure this isn't a construction you can use indescriminantly. In English, a person who walks is a walker, but we just call a person who cooks a cook, and a person who polices is called a janitor! ("police" is often used in the military as a verb meaning to clean up).
Anyway, I think that was what Rachel was asking about. Perhaps you can shed more light on how verbs are modified in French to become words for the people who do the action of the verb.
Thanks! And again, welcome!
Best,
Mark / Sacramento CA
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Re:Re:in English you can change the infinitive of words like to hep into helper so that you are the one helping how do you do this in french.
Bonjour,
merci pour votre aidez. could you help me learn french in exchange for help with english thats if you need it.(You both seem to speak english pretty well already. Oh, and Mark you wern't lying. If your interested contact me.
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