Hi, Do you have a list of verbs that are followed by à and de? And is there a simple way to remember which is the right preposition to be used post which verb?

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Andrea N.B2Kwiziq community member

ils lui ont donné leur nom. (Exercise: Un vol en montgolfière)

Hi Jim,

Thanks very much for your response. My query was based on my understanding that, 'lui' referred to their invention- the hot air balloon, which is inanimate. Further clarification would be welcome.

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Mary Anne B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

dont versus de laquelleune belle table en chêne massif dont le propriétaire avait besoin de laquelle is wrong here? it refers to table

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manpreet kaur j.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Alors / à l’époque

À l’initiative d’alors Ministre de la Culture ….. can we say this instead of à l’époque?

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Sebastian C.C1Kwiziq community member

Gender agreement problem

If one noun is masculine and one is feminine how do we make the agreement in gender and number?

With the first noun only or each term separately ("l'un est beau, l'autre este belle" ) ?

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Maarten K.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Grands-parents and a réussi

The marking is incorrectly red-lining the 's' on " grands-" in < grands-parents >. This had occurred in another lesson previously as well and was subsequently reported to have been corrected.

The use of < l'a réussi > for "passed it" is also being red-lined incorrectly, as also recently noted by James. As < l'a obtenu > is not accepted either, this suggests only 1 correct way to say passed an exam in French.

The choice of imparfait or passé composé for devoir in "she had to work hard" would be made clearer if the rest of the sentence was on the same screen - the final screen presented would then be 'she had to work hard but she passed it'.

(Per the lesson on devoir in imparfait or passé composé - both can be translated into English as 'had to', and it is the 'certainty of outcome/completion' that defines the choice.

Using "devoir" in the imperfect tense versus the compound past in French (L'Imparfait vs Le Passé Composé)

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Helena F.B2Kwiziq community member

Use of "de" in phrase "les fantômes de peintures précédentes"

I used des rather than de in the phrase "the ghosts of previous paintings" since it is used in the context of a plural noun: "les fantômes des (rather than de) peintures précédentes". Since there is no adjective in front of the noun, why is the singular de used?

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