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Danielle A.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Second-most celebrated holidayI was surprised by the first sentence "Pâques est la deuxième fête la plus célébrée en France, après Noël." because it seems like deuxième describes fête rather than la plus célébrée.

Could a sentence like "Pâques est la fête la deuxieme plus célébrée en France, après Noël" work?

Asked 4 years 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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Jeramy R.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Elle ________ Franck ne vienne pas. She's expecting Franck not to come.

I answered this question with attends que and was marked wrong. In the notes on attendre que it says "to wait for [someone] i.e. Frank to do [something] i.e. not to come" why is my answer wrong?

Asked 5 years ago

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Tony K.B1KwizIQ community member

General question

Just wondering why these exercises aren't marked automatically. I think the whole thing would flow much better if we could go straight from one section to the next.

Asked 3 years ago

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James W.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

il avait beaucoup de mal à choisir le pays

Why can't we use "vraiment" here for "really"? and why does it contract to "de" ? I know its because of the quantity of "beaucoup" however the expression is "avoir du mal à"?

Asked 3 years ago

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Anne D.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

Rien de and personne de

In the context of this lesson is rien the negative version of quelque chose and personne the negative version of quelqu’un (ie nothing and no one) ?

Asked 3 years ago

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Phuc L.C1KwizIQ community member

Why is fait mal à moi incorrect ?

Mon frère ________ quand on joue ensemble

why me fait mal is correct but fait mal à moi is incorrect ?

Asked 2 years ago