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Mackenzie S.KwizIQ community member

french inversion

Marc aime les film’s dr Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson

Asked 3 years ago

H. A.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Not as niceIt's one of the quirks of English idiom that "less nice" and "more nice" are never used, so the question ''Tes amis sont moins sympas que les nôtres'' should be translated "Your friends are not as/so nice as ours", not "Your friends are less nice than ours".

Asked 2 years ago

John M.C1KwizIQ community member

Pluperfect: Use of gottenJe m'étais trompé de date cette fois-là.I'd gotten the date wrong that time.
Why in the above translation has the word 'gotten' been used? Although acceptable in USA + Canada, it is regarded as bad grammar in the UK? I had got....... ought to be the translation.

Asked 3 years ago

Johanna A.A0KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

wow such a nice story

wow this story is so intresting

Asked 4 years ago

Carl C.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

pour queI used "afin que" in the last sentence. Kwizbot corrected me to "pour que". However, I see in the text above that "afin que" is employed. I suspect these are interchangeable in any event.

Asked 4 years ago

Stephen B.B2KwizIQ community member

An English issue

Sorry to be off-topic but this is bugging me. In this page is written “ Il fait beau expresses that the weather looks nice”. This does not sound right (to an old, lifelong English speaker like me). “ Il fait beau expresses the feeling that the weather looks nice”, or similar, sounds better. I don’t think one can “express that …”, IMHO. (Otherwise, I am enjoying the course :)

Asked 3 years ago

kiname e.B2KwizIQ community member

du vin ou de vin

Vous êtes un amateur de vin

Vous êtes un amoureux du vin

Bonsoir

Pourquoi dans phrase 1 de vin

et dans phrase 2 du vin

Merci en avance

Asked 3 years ago

Raymond F.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Nous ne te connaissons

If you don't know the person, how can you use te; si vous ne connaissez pas cette personne, comment peut-on utiliser te?

Asked 3 years ago

Owen W.B2KwizIQ community member

ce sont des amours meaning

what does 'ce sont des amours' mean?

Asked 2 years ago

Paul S.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Why c'est, not elle est ?

"C'est une petite lampe de bureau en forme de phare breton. "

"C'est très joli ! "

I am reading

"C'est" vs "Il/Elle est" to say it is/she is/he is in French

Based on that, I am thinking this: we have a specific item here, not a general subject like "La science",

so we can't use 2a - c'est for general, unspecific statements and opinions

so why isn't it using : 2b "il est/elle est for statements and opinions related to specific things"

= Elle est très jolie.

Thanks Paul.

Asked 3 years ago

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