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Gary B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

"nous étions de retour de l'école"

Can you explain grammatically the construction if this phrase? I get that it means "we got home from school", but it seems unnecessarily complicated. Could you not say "nous étions retourné de l'école"?

Asked 3 years ago

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James S.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Difficult for me

Hello,

I just started B2 and I had a hard time understanding a lot of this. I'm wondering if I should go back to a B1 level for awhile. Please let me know whether this is normal.

Thank you

Asked 3 years ago

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Brian E.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Who is the “frère malicieux”?

I presume it’s the speaker, but the speaker sounds female.

Asked 5 years ago

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Sian H.A2KwizIQ community member

Inconsistency in UK region/ county gendersHello, Can you please help me understand how to ‘gender’ UK counties? The lesson suggests that female regions end in an ‘e’. Yet the ones I’ve encountered (Hampshire, Merseyside) are masculine. Cornwall, with no ‘e’, is feminine. How am I meant to work this out? Is there any rule? Or is it just random and I have to remember them all?

Asked 3 years ago

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Anna K.B2KwizIQ community member

A vs en vs dans for "in" places

For in countries/cities, I always thought it was either "à" (usually for cities, except for a small number of cases e.g. au Canada, au Japon), and "en" for countries.

E.g. J'habite à Melbourne.

J'habite en Australie.

However the above example says j'habite DANS le Yorkshire... how can you live INSIDE a place?

Asked 2 years ago

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Martin R.B1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Do my ears deceive me..

In the sentence , doesn't sound like it starts with a . I listen to that over and over again and I just couldn't hear . Does anyone else get that problem?

Asked 4 years ago

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Teresa B.A1KwizIQ community member

why is the passe compose being used in present tense conjugation?

Asked 4 years ago

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kanne f.C1KwizIQ community member

problems with audio

The audio of this exercise was having difficulty -- one can't replay the dictées and the replay of the whole dictation broke up into disjointed bits and pieces. Can this be fixed?

Asked 3 years ago

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Arthur e.A1KwizIQ community member

How to get better

How can I get better in dictée

Asked 4 years ago

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Diego M.C1KwizIQ community member

Question error or...?''Mathilde a rentré la voiture avant qu'il ne pleuve.'''means:
Why is it "...qu'il ne pleuve." as opposed to "qu'il pleuve."?Mathilde put the car away before it rained.

Asked 4 years ago

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