French language Q&A Forum

When do you use the definite article with countries and regions?There's a kwiziq lesson about this: Using le, la, l', les with continents, countries & regions names (definite articles)

But in the text, country and region names are never accompanied by the definite article. E.g., "Duché de Bretagne," "royaume de France," "couronne de France," etc. 

Also, I translated "beforehand" as "à l'avance" instead of "au préalable," which I thought were the same thing, but it wasn't one of the accepted answers.

'Personne n'a pas son billet.' is incorrect because of the 'pas'. Can you explain why this is so?

Why is it Marc l'a regardée and not Marc l'a regardé. Surely the latter is feminine? Thankyou

As an alternative to 'il y a environ deux semaines' could you equally say 'il y a deux semaines environ' ?

Is it 

Un des meilleurs repas que nous ayons jamais faits 

Or

Un des meilleurs repas que nous ayons jamais fait? 

J'ai mis le deuxième et on m'a dit que c'était juste mais le texte final met le premier. 

Est-ce qu'on s'accorde donc le repas au singulier ou au pluriel dans cette construction du superlatif? 

Merci! 

Which rule of grammar covers the word order for the sentence below?:

The hint given is «In French, invert the verb and subject “the…spirits that make the planters”

des alcools de palme artisanaux que fabriquent les planteurs

Est-ce que tu des sous vetements dans ce magasin ou seulement des legumes?

Are we to translate "smells good" or "Smells the rose?"

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