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John B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Beyond Fractions

Hello,

Comment écrit-on la fraction-> 1 5/16, 5 1/2, 3 2/3, etc. Je sais écrire la fraction de base, mais quand on ajoute un nombre entier, je suis déconcerté

Asked 3 years ago

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Mark T.C1Kwiziq community member

Why no "belle" with the "beautiful river Alzette"?

I had other mistakes in the sentence about the river Alzette, but the translation didn't include the word beautiful. Was there a reason to leave that out?

Asked 2 years ago

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Sydney B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

In lesson for 'ne explitif'"Évitons que la situation ne dégénère !Let's avoid the situation getting worse!" appears. Instead of 'avoid' wouldn't 'prevent be better, or is avoid maybe used in Britain to an extent?-- I'm American, and the latter sounds more natural to me.

Asked 2 years ago

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emre ö.A2Kwiziq community member

depuis ou pendant

Selon moi j'étudie depuis 2 mois en France = I have been studying in France for 2 months

J'ai étudié pendant 2 mois en France = I have studied in France for 2 months.

Est-ce que c'est faux pourriez-vous m'aider

Asked 4 years ago

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James W.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

I've seen this comment already but I can assure you the word "pour" is not correctly pronounced here, sounds like "au"

Asked 5 years ago

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Oscar C.A2Kwiziq community member

c'est used even though is expressing opinion of a known thing (and known gender)"Cette pomme est bonne. - Oui, c'est bon.".

Why is "c'est bon" used here instead of "elle est bonne", when it's expressing opinion over something specific that you know the gender of already?

Asked 5 years ago

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J. L.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

object pronouns

Please help! Text: "Le matin on fait le lit. On le couvre pour faire joli et bien rangé." I translated it loosely as "we cover it(the bed) for 'it' to be pretty and tidy" But why is it not '.. pour le faire joli et bien rangé ' (why is the object pronoun not repeated??) Without the object pronoun (pour le faire) couldnt it also mean "we cover it (the bed) to be 'pretty and tidy'...(we do it so we appear to be nice and organized). Bottom line... what is the grammar explanation, if any, for no 'le/la' between pour and faire in the text.

Asked 4 years ago

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E. M.A2Kwiziq community member

“J’ai rendez-vous avec mon amie”

This question was asked in a previous quiz, and the answer was you cannot tell the gender of the ‘“amie”. I understand that the ending e makes it a female friend, but if the question is verbalized, that is not available information. In the quiz I just took, the answer is ‘a woman’. I am confused as to how to answer this question in future quizzes, as two different answers have been given.

Asked 1 year ago

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Lanigiro N.A1Kwiziq community member

de is easy, give me the la

it's funny how all french courses keep saying "oh but you forgot that in french there are male and female nouns"

NO I HAVEN'T. i just cannot possibly remember who is le and who is la, after one month of learning language. and yet, not a single app/website that i've used so far seems to understand that.

"use de when something is uncountable". bro, i'm here because i had no idea if beer is du or de la, and i wouldn't be here if, for example, the quiz used water instead of beer.

they all seem so disconnected from the audience they are trying to teach...

Asked 4 years ago

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James W.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

can you broaden the vocab on here? as I get marked down for using "satisfaisant" at the end when I believe its perfectly fine to use as an alternative

Asked 5 years ago

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