French language Q&A Forum

The student were welcomed by the principal

Les étudiants ont été accueillis par le directeur 

Les étudiants étaient accueillis par le directeur. 

The latter translation is correct yet the C1 Test marked it worng?

Please explain why the given answer is "Alain lui a plaire tout a suite"   which to me says Alain likes him...  Its not like il manque is it.

Bescherelle punctuates haïr in the passé simple as: je haïs, tu haïs, il haït, etc., whereas you insist on: j'hais, tu hais, il hais, etc.  Can they both be correct? 

The fill in the blanks exercise was about people arriving in a new town, to find the streets empty of people. "Tous les magasins de la ville étaient fermés." This was followed by a sentence in the past tense (walking on empty streets from 3pm till 5pm) Then came the sentence being queried (post below).   Thanks so very much to all who responded earlier.

Hello

Is it possible to export the list? For example, I want to import it into app like Anki to practice?

Thanks,

Quyen

Are both of these options correct? When do you use à + direct/indirect pronoun?

How do we get better at French? 

Je ne comprends pas pourquoi parfois quand je donne une réponse, le Quizbot dit que ma réponse n'est pas correcte mais dans le "pourrais aussi dire" il me donne exactement la même réponse que je l'ai écrite ?

Could the postman say “je fais un boulot important”?

Bonjour,

I found this sentence on wordreference when I checked the word profondeur: 

Ce gouffre a trente mètres de profondeur.

Is it correct??

Merci