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Michael D.C1KwizIQ community member

Subjonctif présent versus subjonctif passé

Selon Lawless French dans le petit quiz C-1 que je prends en ce moment, pour « By the time you were ready, the bus had left, » c’est correct dire, « Le temps que tu sois prête, le bus était déjà parti, » mais à mon avis ça devrait être plutôt, « Le temps que tu aies étée prête, le bus était déjà parti.»

Asked 3 years ago

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Lebohang L.A2KwizIQ community member

va á and adapte á

There was an earlier quiz where "something fitted someone" and the answer was APADTE Á. I also remember that VA Á was not one of the options. When is 'adapte á" appropriate?

Asked 3 years ago

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Justin E.A2KwizIQ community member

Why am I "nearly" correct for saying "some"?

All of the examples with du chocolat or du cafe translate as some chocolate or some coffee, but in my kwiz it has it listed as nearly correct. I don't really care about the points, but it's confusing for the quiz to not line up with the lesson.

Asked 2 years ago

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Anne D.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

Not all that easy

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).

Asked 3 years ago

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Abdul Q.B1KwizIQ community member

whats the difference

whats the difference and which one is correct

Le chocolat plaît à Martha.

Le chocolat te plaît

it is really confusing

Asked 3 years ago

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Danielle A.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Allons payer

Could 'allons-y et payer' also be used or is this a set phrase? When else do verbs get stacked like this?

Asked 4 years ago

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Radhika S.B2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Discours indirect

Hi where can get some exercises on this. Also is there a lesson on it? I searched but didn't find any

Asked 2 years ago

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F. M.B2KwizIQ community member

I'm finding the grammar explanations difficultThe grammar explanations describe accurately. When I studied French I had not had a great education including in English so my understanding of the grammar explanations was not great and still isn't. My French got better through sheer repetition on my own part in private study and by living in France for the best part of a year. In other words there was a large amount of learning what is correct and not necessarily why, followed by what sounds right because I lived there long enough and in only francophone company to know. I am sticking with it, I just am also listening to France 24 en direct on Youtube as well because it's how my French improved so much between year 2 and 4 of my degree back in the day. I found in this exercise I was translating differently, sometimes because I'm so rusty, sometimes because the colloquial language has changed and sometimes because I used a different way of expressing it. It is honing my French again but I am wondering if to use aller faire instead of the future tense is as wrong as this exercise suggests i.e. was I supposed to remember it was to practise the future tense or were my translations really as wrong as it suggested?

Asked 1 year ago

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Danielle A.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Round numbers only?

Does this convention only work when talking about full thousands/millions/billions? What if you want to say 12,505 things or 1,350,000 things?

Asked 3 years ago

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Gary B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Further question

I wasn't confused about this till I read the response to why is there the "de" between"c'est" and "perdre". In your response you say if "adjective or past participle in-ed" comes after être, but there is no adjective or past participle after "c'est", so why the "de"?

Thank you for your contribution, Maarten !

- être + adjective or past participle in-ed + de + verb

- être + de + verb

Asked 4 years ago

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