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Ian L.A1Kwiziq community member

Je n'ai que mon âme

I've heard this as a song title, but all of the examples above are sentences with auxiliary verbs, so is this correct French?

Asked 4 years ago

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Gavelin L.B2Kwiziq community member

It turns out to be impossible to ever write a cedilj in this application. The provided hint (press and hold) doesn't work, neither does keyboard comma

Asked 5 years ago

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Rose Y.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

L'adjectif "ancien"

un pont ancien .... d'une autre époque ...... n'est- ce pas?

un ancien pont ... a former bridge ????? selon mon livre de grammaire

Asked 3 years ago

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Frank C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Translations of take

In the first sentence, "...if you ended up alone on a desert island, and (that) you could only take one thing with you..." the french verb prendre is not accepted for take. Yet in the third sentence, "OK, if I had to take one thing I can't do without...", prendre is in fact usedfor take. The context seems the same in both sentences. Should not prendre be acceptable in the first sentence as well ?

Asked 3 years ago

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James W.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

and why isn't "site" given as an option instead of "site-internet" ?

Asked 5 years ago

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Patrick W.B1Kwiziq community member

Imparfait to Express HabitsThis is a wonderful training exercise on using the imperfect past tense. It helped me begin to understand when using the conditional would be an improper choice. This said, American's automatically apply the conditional tense when we see the word "would." So...is the conditional tense applied more in an "if then" context? Such as, "Marie répondrait à Paul, mais elle avait peur."

Asked 3 years ago

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P. C.B2Kwiziq community member

she had to face the facts

About 'face the facts', is it also correct to translate it as ' faire face aux réalités'.

I think 'faire face à ' is a very common expression.

Asked 4 years ago

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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

Asked 4 years ago

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Nancy P.C1Kwiziq community member

Sound file is missing part of a sentence

Missing: "Ce qui me plait plus que tout, c'est l'ambiance détendue,"

I practice pronunciation by reading these texts aloud and checking my pronunciation against the recording - that's why I noticed.

Asked 4 years ago

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Maarten K.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

It would be useful to give a hint

«Faire de qqn» proved to be a difficult expression to track down anywhere. It was suggested by deepL - but without any explanation, of course. Looking at questions below, it seems others have pondered over this as well.

A hint here that it is literally 'make of me' would be very useful. Of course, in English we usually leave 'of' out, and just say 'make me', or move the words around to 'make (something) of me'.

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