French language Q&A Forum

I sometimes see references to "des" as being a plural partitive article.

This relates to uncountable/mass nouns.    So my query is:-

How is it possible to have a plural uncountable noun? 

and then to try to express "some" of this uncountable/mass noun?

Why is there Mieux not Meilleur ?

I know one is adverb and other is abjective but I think adjective should work here too

It seems that requérir can double as meaning both "require" and "request",

despite the fact that the translations you gave for it were:

and did not mention 'request':

(Nous requérons votre présence à cet événement.

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.  

Brief explanation on how to know when w verb is followed by à, de or pour 

Qui peut m'aider s'il vous plaît 🙏🙏

“…four or so…” sounds like an indeterminate or uncountable number to me, hence should be included amongst the right answers to the use of “quelques”.  is it four or isn’t it four? :-)

Is opposé used rather than en face de ever?  In what circumstance would I use opposé(e)?  Would I be understood if I used opposé and not en face de? Merci.