French language Q&A Forum

is there a list of verbs that do or do not take the ne expletif

In the example, "Elle n'est pas stupide du tout!", "stupide" is used as an adjective.

However, the formulation given above says: ne + conjugated verb + pas du tout + (infinitive)

Can someone clarify this please. 

I notice the omission of any article to go with jeux in the phrase 'l'opportunité d'essayer différents jeux'. Is this something to do with the word différents? For example, if there were no adjective, you would surely say 'l'opportunité d'essayer des jeux'...?

Shouldn’t it be …. Mais où s’est passée Lola?

( but what has happened to Lola) instead of mais où est passés Lola?

When  i learned French in my youth ( I am now 91), the passe simple was called the Past Definite in English, is that still so ? We were also told that its use was confined to literature and it was not used otherwise. Is that correct ?

The sentence to be translated: I can listen to them for hours!

I wrote:  Je peux les écouter pendant des heures !

The exclamation mark was marked as incorrect even though it was called for in the original sentence.

Bonjour. Je m'appelle Ella et je viens de Nigeria

peut-on utilise ménage dans la phrase "Avez-vous demandé au reste de votre maisonnée "  ?

merci

"Contre-la-montre" - what a great word!

An observation 

When I leave the dashboard to do a Kwiz, I then get the option to do another Kwiz.. (Test recommended again) and continuing without going back to the dashboard and often find that there are new questions coming up on subjects that I have not studied.. then when I go back to the dashboard, I discover that there are a whole load of new lessons.

Any chance of indicating next to the Kwiz again box that there are new lessons on the dashboard?