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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Lianne L.B2KwizIQ community member

Gender neutral forms

A challenging topic I've been trying to learn about recently is finding gender neutral terms to use for non-binary people's jobs. For example, "Iel est bibliotechnician." In this case, using -an as an alternative to the masculine -en and feminine -enne.

I don't really have a question. I'm just expressing that this is a difficult aspect of this French topic!

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Rachael B.C1KwizIQ community member

Using l' instead of la "Oui, je voudrais une tarte tatin s'il vous plaît, mais je l'aimerais réchauffée et vous mettrez la boule de glace sur le côté"

I am just wondering why it is not "mais je la aimerais réchauffée..." as she is talking about 'une tarte tatin'.

Cheers.

Asked 5 years ago

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G B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Why the agreement?

Comme chaque année depuis que tu nous as quittéS

I did read the lesson on past participle agreement with avoir but am still not sure why the 's' is needed in the above.

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Nick H.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

Amener v emmener

In the sentence below the verb emmener is used, however doesn't that give the impression that her mother stayed with her daughter to watch the film? Whereas the english text says that she watched the film with her best friend. Given the context and thinking retrospectively, I guess her mother would have stayed with her to watch it, but it's a little ambiguous (she could have just dropped her off at the cinema).

I used amener instead of emmener, but that wasn't given as an option.

j'avais dû casser les pieds à ma mère pendant des semaines pour qu'elle m'emmène voir "Amélie" avec ma meilleure amie Lola.

Nick

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Patricia F.C1KwizIQ community member

Dites-moi, s'il vous plaît, qu'est-ce que c'est un "sauce de chien".

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David A.C1KwizIQ community member

negation with main verb plus Infinitive plus d.o.

Which is correct:

Nous n'allons pas le perdre OR Nous allons ne le perdre pas?

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Gilberts I.B2KwizIQ community member

Gender of dimension adjectives

In the lesson about dimensions, you say "Note that in this case the adjectives haut/long/large/profond agree in gender and number with the subject they refer to."

But you only give a gender agreement example for "profond". Do "haut" or "long " or "large" change spelling with gender?

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