French language Q&A Forum

Is ‘its been a long time since ‘ always followed by a verb in the negative? Some language sites seem to have sentences without a negative.

When you keep your normal statement followed by quoi at the end 

-Tu fais quoi?

Can you replace it with comment 

-Tu fais comment?

Why do we have Office de Tourisme, amateur de vin, Miroir d'Eau, amateurs d'histoire, protégé de France ( why not de La France?)

but, Cité du Vin, de l'histoire du vin, Fontaine des 3 Grâces?

There isn't a correction while I wrote the test for the section "peut-être au cafe à côté de la boulangerie" It just shows you at the end where it presents the whole text.

Why use the passe simple here?

Le mot "magnigfique", est-ce que c'est une faut d'orthographe?

Sorry, no accents. In the sentence, I am not sure if you use l'imparfait first, and the second part of the sentence is what? subjunctive or indicative? It sounds strange to me, because in English you would say something like "little did it matter that they bit or not" or maybe "would bite"? (if I translated literally it wouldn't sound right at all: "it didn't matter that IT bites or not" (strange already because the previous sentence talks about several fish). Not quite sure because English is not my first language. But in Spanish we would use the past subjunctive in this sentence, but then in Spanish we have more tenses and we also use a lot more often the subjunctive mode than in French... 

I assume that

Il faut ranger sa chambre

can mean
You must tidy his/her room
as well as
You must tidy your room
Or would you say it a different way?
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Hello, how do you know which translation to English to use? Thank you