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   From: vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid   
      
   Le 02/01/2026 à 13:53, The Doctor a écrit :   
   > Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Et maintenant INN est condiut par un francais.   
   >   
   > Plutot deriger que conduire..   
      
   Well, French is a bugger (that's the fun of it). Plutôt : INN est   
   dirigée par un Français.   
      
   That is, dirigée (participle, not infinitive) if INN is considered to be   
   une entreprise, une société, a company, and so feminine, dirigé if it's   
   un groupe (like le groupe Orange), and so masculine. One can circumvent   
   this question by saying: C'est un Français qui dirige INN.   
      
   And Français with a capital for a Frenchman. (As a noun without a   
   capital it's the language, le français, la langue française.)   
      
   Quibbles? Yes in a way. These things must strike terror into French   
   school pupils, who regularly have to take dictation. We native English   
   speakers are lucky people.   
      
   >> Google Translate converts that into ....   
   >>   
   >> "And now IT is driven by a Frenchman."   
   >>   
   >> Could they be talking about a different "IT"??   
   >   
   > It must have meant it not IT.   
      
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