This may be a little arcane, but what is the general naming convention in French when using proper names from other languages that use the Latin/Roman alphabet, especially for famous persons? For example, in this exercise Leonardo Da Vinci is rendered in the French Léonard de Vinci. The Italian spelling seems to be widely used & in the States at least there has been a move towards using the native spelling of names in academic works & history books.

In English calling him Leonard from Vinci would sound really weird.

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Brennan D.B2Kwiziq community member

Suggestion for translating sentences in notebook lessons

There are lots of translated sentences in the notebook lessons. It would be handy to be able to blend out the french sentence so as to try translate the english sentence into the french as an exercise.

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Archana J.C1Kwiziq community member

Utlisation de c'est avec un adjectif

Pourriez-vous me dire ??????

Quelle est la différence entre

C'est longue/ Elle est longue.

(La liste est longue)

Merci

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Mary Anne B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Plus que toutIf "la saison" is feminine, why is "plus que tout" masculine.

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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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Jim L.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

acquérir - past participle acquis

I had not come across this verb before, and thought it would behave like an ir verb wth a past participle of acquéri. Could you tell me which other verbs follow the same pattern as acquérir? Or is it completely irregular?

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Hugh C.A2Kwiziq community member

feminine adjectives

in the phrase 'avec son architecture colorée.' Why is the adjective feminine when the subject is masculine ?

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