French language Q&A Forum

other than le jeudi prochain, I thought I saw somewhere that there was a way in French to be more specific. For some reason something like le quinzième comes to mind.  Can anyone clarify this for me? Thanks, Ken

Why not, « et qu'est-ce que vous voudriez boire avec ça ? »

Tu nous vas mettre en retard ….. why can’t we say tu nous vas faire en retard?

Test given.  She bought a new hat. Am I to assume that it was a secondhand hat .  There was no indication that it was a second hand hat.  The English translation needs to be better phrased

I thought that with streets , roads we used the preposition Dan’s... then why are we using sur for chemin?

For "breast" in breast of duck, the exercise uses "magret". Can you explain why? LaRousse defines  "magret" as "Fillet of duck fattened for the production of foie gras.", which does not seem to be the same thing, as clearly not all ducks are forced fed to make foie gras; and clearly it would be redundant to say «de canard»

I used blanc, which seems a lot closer: «Partie charnue d'une volaille qui tient à la carcasse.» but is not accepted.

https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/magret/48627

https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/blanc/9729

In the sentence 'Normalement, j'attendrais patiemment votre prochaine livraison, mais j'en ai besoin etc' I answered ...... mais je l'ai besoin..etc' The lesson on the use of 'en' says, 'Notice that 'en' as a pronoun can replace phrases introduced by the preposition de + [thing]/[object]/[location]. In the excercise, there is no 'de', so why 'en'?

Are there other verbs who follow this same pattern: ie. they can be conjugated in the past tense using either 'etre' or 'avoir'? The verb that comes to mind is:

'Paraitre'?

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