French language Q&A Forum

Why is  "Ils ont été" and not "Ils étaient" ? These answers for were baffle me. They have been - They were, or are they interchangeable ?

In the listening exercise: Choisir ses études (A2), shouldnt the adjective fascinant be feminine  given its referent 'La Psychologie'?

The text in question.

Je vais étudier la Psychologie parce que je trouve ça fascinant.

Please advise. THanks

I know there are lots of exceptions in French! Is there one hiding behind the breaking of the symmetry of taking off two letters and adding one when forming participles (-er > -é, -ir > -i, but -dre > -du, rather than the simpler -re > -u) ?

Is it acceptable to say ' Celui qui trouve la fève' instead of 'Quiconque trouve...'?

Is there some reason to use one or the other? It seems to me that there needs to be an object for ¨adorer¨...?

Since both parts of the sentence refer to a feeling/opinion, shouldn't both parts be conjugated using the imperfect past tense?

"Je ne voulais pas choisir pour elle, mais j'ai été soulagé"

Thanks in advance,

John

I entered this (il ferait du soleil) instead of the answer Kwiziq wanted (il ferait beau). Doesn't il ferait du soleil work as well?

Does the use of this phrase (When something has happened, something else will) automatically make the "something else" far enough in the future to use futur simple rather than present tense ? Certainly some of the examples here would likely be fairly soon in the future, but they all use futur simple !