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Brian E.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Two verbs conjugated

Hi, in “Ce jour-là, tous les gens qui me connaissent le savent bien,” why are both connaître and savoir conjugated? There seems to be only one subject, so normally I find the second verb to be in the infinitive.

Asked 4 years ago

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Martin B.KwizIQ community member

Dans ma famille, nous adorons le calendrier de l'Avent. Translated as "we love Advent calendars" but "le calendrier de l'Avent" is singular?

Asked 2 years ago

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Frank C.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

A real challenge

This was possibly the most difficult C1 exercise that I have tackled. Nevertheless, I tried it. I scored myself at 40 out of 70. It simply points out how far I have to go. Thanks for the challenge.

Asked 4 years ago

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Ian R.B1KwizIQ community member

Audio speed

There should be a way to speed up or slow down the audio

Asked 3 years ago

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Kay C.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Devions or éions

Celine, not to be too picky but it is "devions" rather than "devrions" isn't it?

Asked 5 years ago

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V L.C1KwizIQ community member

''Les livres auxquels je pense sont remarquables.'' (bonne réponse dans un quiz)''Les livres auxquels je pense sont remarquables.'' (bonne réponse dans un quiz)

Salut a tous.

Ma question concerne l'utilisation du pronom "dont" ici. La phrase ci-dessus peut traduire comme soit "The books I think of are remarkable" soit "the books i'm thinking about are remarkable." étant donné que penser peut prendre la préposition 'de', cette dernière formulation permet l'utilisation de "dont", n'est-ce pas ? S'il vous plaît donnez votre avis. Merci en avance.

Vois ici: De qui/dont/duquel = of/about whom, of/about which - with prepositional verbs with "de" (French Relative Pronouns)

Asked 3 years ago

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Brian E.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

In “et j'achèterai un parapluie solide”...

... I hear “parapluie”. However, in “et j'achèterai un parapluie robuste” I hear “paraplu”. Is there really a difference there, and if so, why?

Asked 5 years ago

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John M.C1KwizIQ community member

B2 Simple Past, avoirLes amants eurent le temps de se cacher avant qu'il n'arrive.'

Why the n in n'arrive? Does this not now translate as 'before it happened'?

Asked 4 years ago

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Wafi Fathurrahman A.B2KwizIQ community member

Relative Prepositions Similarity

In the other lessons, i saw that "De qui" "Qui" "Dont" "Lequel" and "Duquel" are having the same literal meanings in the English translation. Can, you explain this briefly?

Eg. Le garçon à côté de qui tu es assise a de beaux yeux.

Eg. Voici les amis au sujet desquels nous sommes inquiets.

Eg. Le garçon dont tu parles est très gentil.

Eg. La fille derrière qui je suis assis est belle.

All of them means "Whom' may i know why? and all of them seem so complicated while they literally mean the same.

Asked 3 years ago

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Jaya R.B1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Adjective long

1. Ce sont de longues jupes nouvelles. 2. Ce sont des jupes longues et nouvelles. 3. Ce sont de longues jupes nouvelles. 4. Ce sont de longues et nouvelles jupes. Which one is the correct sentence? Please clarify. Thanks in advance.

Asked 3 years ago

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