Je comprends c'est correcte, mais si je veux parler du passé plus récent, pourrais-je le mettre - 'On était extrêmement impressionnés par la profondeur des galeries?' ou devrais-je le mettre 'on avait extrêmement impressionnés par la profondeur des galeries?'

Je suis un peux confondu parce que 'était impressionné' me son correcte aux oreilles. Par contre, 'on avait impressionné ne m'apparait pas correcte de tout. Cependant, tout ce que j'ai appris du grammaire me dirige à penser que 'impressionne' est un avoir verb qui utilise 'avoir' pour le faire passé

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D. A.C1KwizIQ community member

very confused about agreement

Then why is "nous nous sommes brossé" correct? shouldn't it be "brosses"????

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Basil L.A1KwizIQ community member

gender agreement

Hi,

In the example of “Toutes les fins de semaine, nous allons nager.”, was toutes les agreeing with fins de semaine (feminine phrase), or with nous (a group of female swimmers)?

Thank you for clarifying!

Asked 4 years ago

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Gilberts I.B2KwizIQ community member

Do you deliberately try to trick us?

Rule: words ending in -é are usually masculine (no exceptions mentioned)

Question: What is this noun's gender: ''amitié'' ? (HINT: Look at the word's ending)

Answer: FEMININE!

Given that it is obviously an exception, why ask it like this? Just discourages students who've gone to the effort of remembering the "rules".

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Carl C.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

passe compose vs imparfait

I think that the use of imparfait vs passe compose (sorry I don't know how to use accents on this keyboard) is a matter of opinion in several cases here. For example, I used "achetait des croissants." He did this regularly. The answer is "a achete des croissants." He did it once. Either could be correct. The same with "est devenu une nouvelle personne." Did this happen at once or did it happen continuously? Judging by some other comments, I am not the only one who thinks either tense could be used in some cases.

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D. A.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Inconnues à / de

Bonjour,

The online Collins dictionary gives the translation of 'être inconnu(e) à qn' meaning to be unknown to someone, which I used in the response. The correction provided for 'inconnues de' and this was confirmed by my big Collins Robert dictionary. Could anyone shed some light on the difference between à or de in this context please?

Merci beaucoup :-)

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tony w.C1KwizIQ community member

use of d' de with holiday

text says de Hanoucca, not d'H.......

pourquoi?

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N. Hilary (Shamrockhill) W.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

Question about the use of the 24 hour clock

I kwizzed my lesson plan and it had the following question:
Ce magasin est fermé ________ deux heures et demie.This shop is closed from two o'clock to two thirty.(HINT: deux heures = two o'clock)

My answer was, "de deux heures a..." which was marked correct. (Sorry can't do the accents here.)

My question:

Shouldn't this have read, "Ce magasin est fermé de quatorze heures a quatorze heures trente." ?

Or: "Ce magasin est fermé de deux heures a deux heures et demie de l'apres-midi."?

These formats would have distinguished the time as being in the afternoon, not the early morning hours. Is the reason that they were not used because one can assume that a shop would be open during the daytime, not the wee hours of the morning? And, if that is true, is it common not to be specific unless absolutely necessary?

Merci pour votre reponse.

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Kevin C.C1KwizIQ community member

How to ask a question ?

Can we say Avons-nous to mean "Have we" rather that "Est-ce'qu on a " ?

Kevin

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