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Frank C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Could you tell our listeners...

The tense chosen for pouvoir in this case is the conditional, which to me translates as "would you tell..." and not as "could you tell..." I get this wrong a lot and I am aware of the lesson but still err in regard to translating could. Help!

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Bhawna K.A0Kwiziq community member

i do not understand why passe recent and futur proche are not included in french tenses

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Max K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Reflexive verbs are not passive voice?

I thought and had the same meaning and are both passive voice constructions. This comes up in a question asking for an active voice sentence to be turned into a passive. I used which sounds better to me than . So, are reflexive constructions passive voice or not? I was taught, like 50 years ago, that they were. C'est un peu tatillon, mais j'ai envie de savoir.

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Max K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

avoir du mal a

I'm not sure why is not an acceptable way to express struggle. From Le grand Robert:

II V. intr. (Fin XIe). Se donner de la peine, du mal*. ➙ Appliquer (s'), efforcer (s'), évertuer (s'), fatiguer (et se fatiguer), gémir (fig.), trimer (fam.) ;→ 1. Coût, cit. 27 ; élite, cit. 5. Peiner comme une bête (cit. 11) de somme, comme un forçat… Peiner jour (cit. 42) après jour. — Élève qui peine sur une composition (cit. 8) latine (au sens III, 2, de peine). Il peinait pour s'exprimer (→ Facilement, cit. 3). — Par ext. Respiration, souffle qui peine (→ Oxygène, cit. 3).

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Patrick K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

No explanation of when devoir can be used for "need to" instead of "must"

How could you say "He needs a day off." ?

I answered:

Il a besoin d'un jour de congé.

*Il doit un jour de congé*

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Jeffrey B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Lesson Order

This is not a big discrepancy at all, but shouldn't part one be on the lesson list before part two? As it is now, part two is listed first & part one second.

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eric d.C1Kwiziq community member

Why mark "nous sommes brossés" as almost correct?Nous ________ les cheveux.We brushed our hair(HINT: Conjugate "se brosser" (to brush) in the compound past (Passé Composé))nous sommes brossénous sommes brossés

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Archana J.C1Kwiziq community member

Des doutes

D'Houstan ou de Houstan?

Car H mute est une voyelle....????

J'ai écrit je fais des choses variées au lieu de différentes?

Çà marche?