French language Q&A Forum

Hi, I don't really understand when to use the present tense and when to use the future tense after "prochain". eg L'année prochaine, il commence l'université AND  En septembre prochain, Gareth visitera Madrid. In fact I'm a bit vague on Future/Present options in general....A pointer towards a lesson would be appreciated, Thanks.

2 questions about this sentence:

1. Is "yeux étincelants" not acceptable here?

2. Why is the passé composé used instead of the imparfait "les yeux...auxquels je ne pouvais jamais résister"?

Est-ce 

'sur le plancher' remplace 'sur le sol / par terre' ?

plancher ça veut dire floor????

Merci

Hi,

I see here that assez is used to mean "not enough", but doesn't it also mean "that much"? 

Ils n'ont pas assez d'argent. -> Couldn't it also mean that they don't have that much money? Not with the implication that is not enough for a specific purpose, but rather not that much in general.

How to tell them apart?

Hello. I answered the following exercise question incorrectly, selecting en instead of dans.

Les enfants sont ________ le métro.

In level C1 why is there so much emphasis on passé simple?  I would rather be practising useful phrases. Thank you.  

1)I used 'formidable' instead of 'genial'. Is it right?

2)Usually bac is used for bins. Here its used for 'tray'.I thought it was 'plateau' for tray.

Merci

I keep pressing submit answer when I really mean to press play again so end up submitting no answer but can’t go back to the previous stage or start the exercise again. It would be easier if the play button was at the bottom. I’m using an iPad.

Why une brosse a dents and not aux because dents is plural?

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?