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JudyC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

"C'était la dernière fois que je venais te vois." Why does "que je venais" translate to "that I was coming" and not "that I came"?

Asked 7 years ago

AdamC1Kwiziq community member

C'est moi qui payeWhy can't you just say Je paye? Or someone corrected me after I said that my small daughter is ill (La petite est malade <- wrong, C'est la petite qui est malade <- why?)

Asked 7 years ago

KristinaA1Kwiziq community member

j'habite a edmonton

Asked 7 years ago

MB1Kwiziq community member

On the test the question was "Il pense à sa famille. Elle y pense aussi. If y = à plus thing/object/location (but not a person) and famille is a group of people why is y used?

Asked 7 years ago

MonicaA1Kwiziq community member

Why woudnt it be "devant de la table"?

Asked 7 years ago

MarcelaA1Kwiziq community member

Je viens de Chili.

Asked 7 years ago

AntoniosA2Kwiziq community member

Il faut faire *son* litIn one of the questions the expression `Il faut faire son lit` was translated as "You must make your bed". Is `il faut`, like `on`, requiring the use of the 3rd person? Would it be grammatically wrong to say `Il faut faire ton lit`? What about `Il faut faire mon lit` if it's my bed that you must make? Thanks you in advance.

Asked 7 years ago

AntoniosA2Kwiziq community member

'Also' or 'but'I think most of the examples could be translated by keeping the negation and using 'but'. At least for me, it's clearer than losing the negation of 'ne' For example: Je n'ai que fait mes devoirs. I didn't do (anything) but my homework. Nous n'avons regardé qu'un film. We didn't watch but one film. Nous n'avons que mangé des bonbons We didn't (do anything) but eat sweets. Nous n'avons mangé que des bonbons We didn't eat (anything) but sweets. They're not perfect English perhaps, but with the right intonation I think they could hold in oral English.

Asked 7 years ago

SonerA0Kwiziq community member

I don't know how to distinguish between masculine and feminini words.

Asked 7 years ago

RossA1Kwiziq community member

How does this function relative to "il fault que"?

Asked 7 years ago

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