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Rebecca L.C1Kwiziq community member

Definite article for one's own body parts?

Why is it "Mes pieds sont gelés" rather than "Les pieds sont gelés"? I understood that you could use la, le, l' when referring to your own body parts. How can you tell which to use?

Asked 3 years ago

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Jan P.B1Kwiziq community member

The term "infinitive"I think when you say "Use the infinitive" for "cooking" for the answer, is misleading when the answer is "faire le cuisine". It's really a form of the infinitive, not the actual infinitive by itself.

Asked 4 years ago

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Ren C.A1Kwiziq community member

No list for country question on lesson

I got the following question wrong because I didn't know what 'South America' was in French. Clicking on the 'Learn and Discuss' button lead me to this lesson, where South America is not mentioned. In fact, the 2 links presented in this lesson for learning more also don't contain a list of continents. It's only in the 2nd link of this lesson (En/au/aux = In/to with countries and continents (French Prepositions)), that it mentions South America in an example, rather than as part of the main lesson. Perhaps this lesson should contain a list of continents if it's going to be linked to by the below question:

________ est un vaste continent. South America is a vast continent.

Asked 3 years ago

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Alhaji F.Kwiziq community member

Examples of sentence using the comparison of adjectif in French by using ,Moins__que

Asked 4 years ago

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Brian E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

“Un bon moyen de mettre la finance au service d'un projet de société alternatif.”

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Is the adjective “alternatif” in the masculine form because it’s linked with the masculine noun “projet”? Is there a chance that it should be linked with the female noun “société” and therefore be “alternative”, or is it obvious to French speakers that this would not be the case?

Thanks, Brian

Asked 4 years ago

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Brian E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Audio challengesI had a couple of audio challenges with this one (probably just my ears as usual)… For: “Je ne pouvais pas faire grand-chose pour aider” I had: “Je ->met

Asked 3 years ago

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Rana D.A1Kwiziq community member

Compound nouns with à and de

Hi, why in this phrase (le tatin de légumes) they used ´de and not aux légumes?

Asked 5 years ago

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Christophe B.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Something I just wanted to check…

I searched ‘Dix-neuf heures et demie’ on Google, and they said you can say it, but it is the informal way. Can you tell me why it still can be used, but it was not accepted as a correct answer? Thanks so much for your understanding.

Asked 3 years ago

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Anne D.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Which past tense for paraître ?

I’m having difficulty with the sentence "Leurs témoignages ________ louches à la police.

(Their testimonies sounded dodgy to the police)

Why isn’t the verb in l’imparfait rather than PC? It seems to me that the testimonies weren’t suddenly dodgy, it was something that continued

Asked 4 years ago

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Connor B.B2Kwiziq community member

Audio of hope

The audio recording for the English "hope" seems to be for "horror" instead.