French language Q&A Forum

Questions answered by our learning community with help from expert French teachers

14,841 questions • 32,162 answers • 992,634 learners

Ask a question

Find your French level for FREE

And get your personalised Study Plan to improve it

Find your French level

EDOARDO F.A2Kwiziq community member

Subjontif Imparfait

Salut! Récemment j'ai commençe à étudier le subjontif. J'ai remarquè qu'il y a deux formes pour le subjontif imparfait: avais et eusse (pour avoir) et étais et fusse (pour être). Si je conjuge ceux-ci en le conjugateur (https://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-french-verb-etre.html) je peux voir qu'on utilise fusse, mais si je cherche une simple phrase en Google Traducteur (ou sur des autres traducteurs) comme "If I were you, ..." ils utilisent toujours l'imparfait indicatif ("Si j'étais toi, ...", dans le dernier exemple). Quel est la bonne forme? Merci.

Asked 3 years ago

Like0Answer2

Brian E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

“ Une fois, j'ai vu une bouteille de chablis”

I get a bit confused when, due to the speaker being female, we do/do not add an “e” to the past participle. Here, for instance, I was expecting “vue”.

Asked 5 years ago

Like0Answer2

John M.C1Kwiziq community member

B2 Grammar: French demonstrative adjectivesCe matin-là, je me lèverai tôt.That morning, I will wake up early.Why is the above sentence translated as wake up and not get up?Wake up would be,Ce matin-là, je me reveillerai tôt

Asked 3 years ago

Like1Answer2

Ashley T.Kwiziq community member

Is there ever a situation where you would use tout que/qui instead of tout ce qui/que?

Title. Trying to figure out if you must have the "ce" or if there are situations where it is not present.

Asked 4 years ago

Like0Answer1

Rita B.A1Kwiziq community member

adverbs and object's gender

do these adverbs need to agree with the object's gender?

Asked 4 years ago

Like0Answer2

Marilyn C.Kwiziq community member

Y vs Ygreck in impératif

In the imperative, what is the rule for pronouncing the letter vs the letter sound ? I’ve heard both and don’t understand the difference.

Asked 2 years ago

Like0Answer2

chris w.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Moudre passe simple

Vous devriez ajoute 'moudre' a la liste des verbes irregulier

Asked 4 years ago

Like0Answer1

James S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Glitch in these exercises

There is a glitch in the writing and dictation exercises -- when you finish typing and hit enter (or whatever), it moves directly to the next portion to read/listen to without giving the option to grade it. It's frustrating.

Asked 3 years ago

Like0Answer2

Dave S.C1Kwiziq community member

Nous mettrons la table ...

My petit quiz question was Nous mettrons la table ... which was translated as "We'll lay the table ..." In the US, we use "set" not "lay," the latter having an uncomfortable connotation!

Asked 4 years ago

Like0Answer3

Łukasz G.B2Kwiziq community member

Writing decimal numbers

Hi forum,

What is the correct way of writing English "2,148.20". I thought the thousands separator in French is space, but have two correct answers "2.148,20" "2 148,20"?

Asked 4 years ago

Like0Answer1

Find your French level for FREE

And get your personalised Study Plan to improve it

Find your French level