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Lewis S.C1Kwiziq community member

mais on entend encore

It's very frustrating, even after listening to it 20 times and with the volume turned up, I hear, "...mais longtemps encore très souvent les chansons à la radio...".

Asked 2 years ago

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Thy M.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

"les" or "des"

Bonjour,

I have a tiny off-topic question relating the articles of the nouns before qui/que.

Must the articles always be "les" instead of "des" because the noun is defined by qui/que later on already. Is this the right way to understand it?

The examples in this lesson always use un/une and verb of preference like "adorer" (which we all know must go with definite articles).

So I'm just asking what if I want to say: "They are the girls who I saw yesterday". Should it be:

a) Elles sont les filles que j'ai vues hier

b) Elles sont des filles que j'ai vues hier

Merci.

Asked 2 years ago

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V L.C1Kwiziq community member

''Les livres auxquels je pense sont remarquables.'' (bonne réponse dans un quiz)

Salut a tous.

Ma question concerne l'utilisation du pronom "dont" ici. La phrase ci-dessus peut traduire comme soit "The books I think of are remarkable" soit "the books i'm thinking about are remarkable." étant donné que penser peut prendre la préposition 'de', cette dernière formulation permet l'utilisation de "dont", n'est-ce pas ? S'il vous plaît donnez votre avis. Merci en avance.

Vois ici: De qui/dont/duquel = of/about whom, of/about which - with prepositional verbs with "de" (French Relative Pronouns)

Asked 3 years ago

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mo a.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

aussi bien que

Hi, I used " pour autant que je m'en souvienne" and it marked my answer as wrong. Can someone please explain that. thanks

Asked 1 year ago

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Owen W.B2Kwiziq community member

faire comme'J'allais enfin faire comme mes grands frères !' as an english native i find this sentence very hard to parse, can someone explain the use of 'faire comme' here cause i see it elsewhere as well

Asked 2 years ago

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andy f.B2Kwiziq community member

Le petit

Jai laissez la petite jouer avec les santons, mais l enfant est un garcon , son fils, donc ne cest pas " le petit" ? oU est ce que un phrase la petite peu importe cest un garcon ou une fille ?

Asked 1 year ago

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SANDEEP K.C1Kwiziq community member

Negative interrogative and indefinite articles

Bonjour,

We know that indefinite articles "un/une/des" become "de" in negative form with the exception of verb être and verbs of states. But, does this rule also apply to the negative of interrogative sentence?

For example:

Il mange une pomme. -> Il ne mange pas de pomme.

Is the following also true?

Est-ce qu'il mange une pomme ? -> Est-ce qu'il ne mange pas de pomme ? and

Mange-t-il une pomme ? -> Ne mange-t-il pas de pomme ?

I didn't find any reference about negative interrogative and indefinite articles so have to ask to clear my doubt. Also, please confirm the case with negative interrogative and partitive articles.

merci beaucoup.

Asked 2 years ago

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Patrick K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Neuf vs nouveau

My new school bag is blue and yellow

I answered: Mon cartable neuf est bleu et jaune

Kwiziq wanted: Mon nouveau cartable est bleu et jaune

I took the phrase to mean that the bag was brand new, so I used "neuf". Is the phrase ambiguous or am I missing something?

Thanks!

Asked 2 years ago

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Frank C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Translation of 'sporting event'

My dictionary translated this as 'événement sportif' and did not give 'épreuve' as an option. When I used the same dictionary in reverse by looking up the translation of 'épreuve', the translation was ordeal, test, hardship but not sporting event. Do I need a new dictionary?

Asked 1 year ago

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