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renwa f.A1KwizIQ community member

you said that we use des only with countable nouns, does that means that uncountable nouns are treated as singular in french ?

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Victoria T.C1KwizIQ community member

Whoops my question got cut off... personne ne soit capable de se passer de son portable. Why use subjunctive?

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Victoria T.C1KwizIQ community member

Use of subjunctive after personne ne in this phrase from writing challenge:

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J. C.C1KwizIQ community member

l'ancienne maison = la maison dernière

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Marnie C.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Aigü and aigüeThe example uses masculine and feminine endings but in your "instruction" there is no mention feminine v s masculine...only the NOT derived from verbs... become -üe in the written form, but are pronounced in exactly the same way as the masculine form." Could you clarify this?

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Stewart H.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Imparfait v Passé Composé

This week's Weekend Workout (31-08-2018) has a question and answer as detailed below.

The translation for 'we arrived' is given in the imparfait but surely it should be in the Passé composé as they arrived only 'once' and not as the imparfait implies 'used to arrive' meaning they arrived on a regular basis i.e. more than just on the one occasion.

Could you please explain.

When we arrived in the changing rooms,

Quand nous arrivions dans les vestiaires,

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Carmen C.A2KwizIQ community member

"que mon copain m'aurait préparé avant de partir" Why is the verb préparé in the past tense and not in the infinitive tense?

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renwa f.A1KwizIQ community member

why "nous" and "on" aren't followed by the same conjugation of the verbso is it wrong to say on sommes gentille ? and why ?

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Samuel S.A0KwizIQ community member

How to understand its a definite or indefinite articles in french

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Loui G.C1KwizIQ community member

qui or ce qui ?

Please could someone explain to me what exactly is the difference between "ce qui" and "qui"?

I think ce qui is which/what and qui is which/what/who but how do you know which "which" to use?

Grateful for any responses.

Loui

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