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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

monter with être/avoirLes explorateurs ont monté la colline / Les explorateurs sont montés sur la colline. Do these mean the same thing?

Asked 9 years ago

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Bruce C.A1Kwiziq community member

What about negative sentences referring to body parts?Which is correct and what references can you provide to convince my teacher? Elles n'ont pas les yeux verts? Elles n'ont pas des yeux verts? Elles n'ont pas d'yeux verts?

Asked 8 years ago

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Cheryl N.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

How to say, including, please?I did not save the lesson in my notebook, & I've forgotten how to say 'including'. Could someone please tell me this? Cheryl

Asked 9 years ago

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Carlos S.C1Kwiziq community member

In the sentence "Ce sont mes livres" why do you write "Ce" this/that instead of "Ces" these?

Asked 6 years ago

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Joan C.A1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

'je me sens de la joie' and 'je sens la joie'. Are they the same?

Asked 6 years ago

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Melody S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

The table is labeled oppositely to another I have seenhttp://leconjugueur.lefigaro.fr/conjugaison/verbe/s%27asseoir.html The lists here are numbered oppositely to the link above (1st form 2nd form). The Figaro site says: La réforme de l'orthographe de 1990 autorise à écrire le verbe asseoir sous la forme assoir. I don't know the conventions of the figaro site- thus I don't know which form is the pre 1990 one, and which is post 1990. I don't know enough about verb conjugations to guess which is for s'asseoir and which is for s'assoir (same applies to this lesson). It would be helpful to give info here as to which is which. Kwiziq uses Connaître, which according to figaro is the pre-1990 version (as do other teaching sites I've seen). Same for figaro http://leconjugueur.lefigaro.fr/conjugaison/verbe/connaitre.html It says however: La réforme de l'orthographe de 1990 autorise à écrire le verbe connaître sous la forme connaitre. By comparison with s'asseoir and s'assoir, there's hardly any difference in conjugation of connaitre vs connaître (circomflex).

Asked 9 years ago

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Puisque /parce queIn writing challenge A2 week 49 (?late March 2017) it says: - They're very expensive, these phones! - Yes, granny but it's because you can go on the internet --> Oui, mamie. mais c'est parce qu'on peut aller sur internet. Since mamie already knows the phones are expensive, shouldn't it be "puisqu'on peut" ?

Asked 8 years ago

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Diana S.A1Kwiziq community member

Tu veux venir à la piscine? - Oui, je le veux.The idea is introduced with à, why do we use le instead of y. Am a little lost here.

Asked 9 years ago

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Z. T.A1Kwiziq community member

J'habite à Genève, mais je suis hongroise. Où habitez-vous?

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P. F.A2Kwiziq community member

Translation of 'chestnut'

Bonjour,

Why is 'marron' (as opposed to 'châtaigne') unacceptable as a translation for 'chestnut'?

Asked 4 years ago

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