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Katie K.A2Kwiziq community member
'à quoi' et 'dont'

How do you use 'à quoi' et 'dont' compared to the other terms ? Merci

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Shraddha J.A0Kwiziq community member
Order of words

Thank you helping in previous question.

How to know the order of the words..?

Est ce que tu parles la francias?

Est ce que parlez vous la francias?

How to decide- personal pronoun to be used has to be before verb or after verb??

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Bhavani S.B2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
La politesse. ________ inhabituel. Politeness. That's unusual.

Salut

J'ai choisi - ça-  pour répodre sur la question. mais il est tort. pourquoi,, La traduction sur l'anglais peut être le mauvais.  Vous pouvez vérifier s'il-vous-plait

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Maarten K.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
«Des serre-tête» is invariable ?

According to Larousse, Collins and Academie-françiase, « serre-tête » is invariable. Word Reference and Robert list «serre-têtes», but it is not the 'official version' apparently.

From the Académie : 

SERRE-TÊTE. n. m.■  Ruban ou coiffe dont on se serre la tête. Des serre-tête.

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chris w.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
On se reposa ensuite pendant quelques heures

What is the function of 'ensuite' in this sentence? It doesn't seem to appear in the translation ' we then rested for a few hours'. Perhaps it should be 'we then rested together for a few hours.'?

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H. A.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Expletive "ne" following a positive main verbMy answer to a quiz question in which the main verb is positive included the “ne” expletive in the subordinate clause following "sans que". This was marked as wrong. I’ve followed the discussion about the use of this expletive with “sans que” and there appears to be no consensus about whether it can be used or not when the main verb is positive, and even the Académie Française equivocates. It seems that it’s quite common for “ne” to be used in this context, in which case shouldn't "ne" be allowed whether the main verb is negative or positive?
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Sade' S.A0Kwiziq community member
French time

 the equivalent time: zéro heure quarante-cinq 

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Tomohiro Y.A0Kwiziq community member
About parfois

Je pense

il peut être embarrassant parfois. → il peut être parfois embarrassant.
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Frank C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Preposition after vouloir

In the conditional phrase in the second sentence, we have "...si je ne voulais pas être père...".  I have terrible hearing, but I thought I heard d'être père.   I know that vouloir does not take a preposition to introduce an infinitive, so I was dubious.  I certainly did not hear an elision of the 's' of pas with être.   Are my ears deceiving me?

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nicole r.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Expression il y a

Hi as I am learning about this expression I'm trying to find an audio clip with just this expression to practice saying it by itself but, I can not find it.


Thank you

Nicole

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