French language Q&A Forum

When d’où you use commencer à and commencer de? I have seen both used.

When should you use offrir instead of donner to say give?

Je pense que cette conversation aurait été plus interessante et utile si une des personnes avait présenté la position du gouvernement d’en manière cool et rationale. On s’attend à cela au niveau C1. Pour moi au Canada, je n’ai pas fait mon retraite jusqu’au âge 66, et j’ai trouvé quitter mon travail plutôt dur parce que mon salaire à temps plein c’est bien, et le travail est un forme de vie sociale. En général,  la vie ne devient pas moins cher. Est-ce qu’il possible que les autres pays développés aient un âge de la retraite plus élevé que France pour une raison ? 

I believe the English should say ‘Tomorrow Federer will lose to Roland Garros’.

"It is green" still gets "il est vert" marked wrong, despite the fact that it appears to refer to a specific item (as opposed to using "c'est vert," the preferred answer, which would indicate something more general--despite no indication of such in the sentence). Tired of having my score set back (I had to use up most of my free quizzes for the month to make up for this). Please fix. Would also be nice to have the "report it" button on the page that people seem to say exists but which I have never seen.

https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/my-languages/french/tests/results/15218594/system

I don't understand why  "Pour être riche, il faut avoir beaucoup d'argent" is wrong? Any ideas, please.

In this lesson the note about the conversational past states that in these cases, the en will be before or after être: formally, it should be before, but in practice, it often ends up after.

Following this advice I put "Nous en nous sommes allés après le dessert.". This was flagged as incorrect, and "Nous nous en sommes allés après le dessert." as being correct. 

This seems inconsistent with the note. I see there have been other questions about this topic. To me, "nous en nous sommes" flows off the tongue better than "nous nous en sommes".

I think faire faire and se faire + infinitif are quite hard for English speakers to get their heads round. Is there a reason that only one of the examples is in the present tense?  Even that one is ambiguous (ils se font couper les cheveux - could be they’re getting their hair cut as we speak or are just about to).

Entre les deux mots ces-ci, lequel est mieux? 

Grosse

ou

Grande

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