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11 years ago
Mon ami peut résoudre beaucoup des équations compliquées et je souhaite que je pourrais faire ça aussi.

I'm trying to say, "my friend can solve a lot of complex equations and I wish I could do that too." I don't think it's right.
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11 years ago
mm, above: wrong.

Should be: Mon ami peut résoudre beaucoup d'équations compliquées et je souhaite pouvoir faire ça aussi.

équations = starts with a vowel, so d'.
in french, je souhaite que je pourrais is redundant; they usually change the second 'je' to the infinitive.

like; they wouldn't say, je veux que je prenne une douche for i want to take a shower, would they? they would say je veux prendre une douche.

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11 years ago
Mon ami peut résoudre de nombreuses équations complexes et je regrette de ne pas en être capable.

the verb "wish" is a bit tricky in French, I wish is Je souhaite, but I wish I could has another translation very common in French: je regrette de.
example: I wish I would have come: Je regrette de ne pas être venu, so here I wish I could, je regrette de ne pas pouvoir or je regrette de ne pas être capable.
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