French language Q&A Forum

'I always loved...' Why is it in the past tense and not imparfait in French? I felt it was an opinion. (P.S Found this query very well explained below. So please ignore this part.)

Why is apprendre preferred over étudier?

In "économiser beaucoup de l'argent", why is there a definite article after the "de"?

J'ai choisi créer pour "made up" mais il ne marchait pas.  À sa place, vous avez proposé "inventer."  Dans la deuxième instance, j'ai utilisé "inventer ".  Vous avez fait la correction, "créer ".  Je pense que tous les deux devraient être acceptable dans chaque traduction.  Make up, imagine, create sont des synonymes dans le contexte de cette histiore.  L'histoire était mignon comme d'habitude.  Félicitations ! 

In the phrase, "où ils lui ont confisqué son portable",  Why is "lui" there?  If it's a pronoun for "him" why does it need to be there?  (The subject is "they", the verb is "confiscated" and the object is "his mobile phone".)  What grammer rule requires "him" to be part of this sentence?  Is there a lesson that explains the answer (I feel like I've missed something).

Does effort refer to the skiing activity or to the production of the raclette ?   The sentence seems a bit ambiguous.

Hi,

In this lesson, we use Elle est à New York to say She is in New York

But in another lesson, we use J'habite dans le New Jersey to say I live in New Jersey

Now I am a bit confused about the use of dans le and à with cities. Help!

Kevin