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Rania I.B2Kwiziq community member

En for “people”

Here it says that En can’t be used for people but I have heard it in the following context: Tu as des enfants, oui j’en ai trois. In this case en is referring to people?

Asked 3 years ago

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Glen B.C1Kwiziq community member

Maybe because?

Is it because fatiquer is transitive ‘only’ and ‘must’ have an object, otherwise fatiguée here is an adjective? Might be back to A level for me!

Asked 3 years ago

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Anne D.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

"What" questions and "que"ATTENTION:
What can only be at the end of the sentence, and you use quoi and NOT que.

I spent a while trying to understand this sentence, as there are several examples given later on with "que" or "qu’" at the beginning, eg qu’est-ce ?", "que veut-il ?"and indeed those starting "qu’est-ce que". I reckoned it only applies to your first group of sentences where intonation, rather than inversion is used to ask the question - is that right?

Asked 3 years ago

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T. T.C1Kwiziq community member

Personne ne / gendre du verbe

Quand est utilisee avec , pourquoi est-il que le verbe (e.g. arrive) n'est pas forme avec le E femenin??? (Pardon la faute d'accents!) Merci!

Asked 3 years ago

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JOHN A.C1Kwiziq community member

Que veut dire la phrase "les quatre cents coups" dans le contexte de ce petite conte?

Asked 3 years ago

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Maya M.A1Kwiziq community member

Musculine countries

At the beginning of the lesson, it is written that "En, au and aux" are used for countries, which I'm fine with, but later on it also says that "En, dans la and dans l' " are also to be used with countries. (Regions, states and countries) My question is, if I wanna say that I'm going to a musculine country and I have both Dans le / Dans l' and Au, which one do I use? I'm so confused!

Asked 2 years ago

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Frank C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Meaning of the last sentence

What is meant by ..."qui a su conquérir les petits comme les grands" ?

Asked 3 years ago

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Lewis S.C1Kwiziq community member

Bon, voici la règle.

I've read all the comments here and in the related links, several times.

It seems the rule be stated as, there's NO gender/number agreement of the participle when there is a direct object following the verb.

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