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Max K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
piétiner v attendreIn my experience piétiner is often a good translation for "wait", especially where it's an aggravately wait that leaves you walking up and down. A little guidance on this might be helpful..........max
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J. C.A2Kwiziq community member
Q:"''Nous sommes professeurs.'' Who can be speaking?" A: "Georges" - Why?I understand about mixed gender and singular/plurals, but this strikes me as a misleading question - the other options were the standard mix of genders, but I would assume if only person was speaking (Georges), then the question means who is this referring to, not speaking, and so this would not be a correct answer.
I don't think this is a case of misunderstood grammar, just a poorly phrased question. What I think the writer had in mind was that just George was speaking, and was referring to himself and someone else, but the other answers all imply one person speaking, unless two people were speaking at exactly the same time (unlikely!), e.g. "Georges and Fiona".

Anyone care to shed light on the matter before I report?

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Anna S.A2Kwiziq community member
Bonjour!
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Lucinda E.A1Kwiziq community member
Indicating the time of day

Bonjour Aurelie !

Why is it that when you write time indicating the time of day (i.e. du soir or du matin) that you use "et demie" or "moins le quart" but when writing in 24 hour time you write just the number past so like "trente" or "quarante-cinq" ?

This may not be right but when i was doing the quizzes I often got it wrong because of this and am a little confused to be honest !

Merci 

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Amitgera L.A1Kwiziq community member
explain all the articles in detail.
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Max K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
La peur v. une peur

LA peur is a general state, whilst UNE peur is a particular fear, such as fear of spiders. It might be valuable to point this out in the lesson. I just today discovered this wrinkle.

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Max K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Le Robert versus itself.............

Le Robert on line gives two examples of "de peur que" - one with and one w/o ne expletif. I'll think that in another lesson on your site, you do not recommend using ne with de peur que

4  par peur de ;de peur de ;(VX) Peur de.« Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'être obligé d'en pleurer » (Beaumarchais).▫ De, par peur que (et subj.).« Elle me renvoyait par peur que je la fatigue » (Proust). Il la retenait de peurqu'elle ne s'enaille.

© 2018 Dictionnaires Le Robert - Le Petit Robert de la langue française

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Max K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
arriver v. êtreWhat's wrong with the answer "jusqu'à ce que tu arrives" versus your preference "jusqu'à ce que tu sois? 
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Marnie C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
I’m vs kilometresI was marked “almost right” when I used ‘kilometres’ instead of ‘km’.  Do you always abbreviate distances?
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Dorne C.A2Kwiziq community member
In an earlier exercise you have 'Je chapeau bleu at one jute bleu'. why was 'jute blue' not feminised or is it assumed that woman do not wear hats?
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