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Gloria B.A1Kwiziq community member

Why de grands hommes and not des grands hommes..?

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Jennifer C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

If you swim regularly but not with a club would you use faire or jouer?I find it difficult to understand how, without context, you decide whether to use faire de or jouer à + sport?

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Sush D.B1Kwiziq community member

personne and aucun(e)--transferable or notcan I not say personne n'est venu or aucun n'est venu

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Jacqui T.C1Kwiziq community member

I don't understand why "prends-lui deux" can be a correct solutionPlease ignore what I have written below.

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

de/des before adjectiveFrom the week 71 A1 writing challenge: "She likes eating salad and also small tomato pieces" -> "Elle aime bien manger de la salade et aussi DES petits morceaux de tomate". I had expected "..et aussi DE petits morceaux.." Isn't there a rule that 'des' loses its s when there is an adjective before the noun?

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Will s.A2Kwiziq community member

Self study guidance/planning?Hello. I have decided to work towards the DELF A2. I have a native french partner who is willing to support me with reviewing my progress, and a selection of text books from previous (failed) attempts to do attend french classes. I'm more motivated than the past as we'll be moving to France! Amazing what pressure can do! I am trying to find suggested plans and structures to guide my learning - something a classroom would offer. The Kwiziq guidance for grammar at each level is invaluable, the advice on Lawless French and a handful of mock exams - so I'm not completely at a loss. However, I wonder if people know of any other helpful resources specifically to support the self-study planning and structure towards A2?

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Katy C.A1Kwiziq community member

Seem specific to me?I'm still having trouble with these two examples: C'est vraiment magnifique ici! It's really beautiful here! - ici seems to make it specific, is it not? Miam, c'est délicieux! Yummy, it's delicious! -this seems to fit the ambiguous cases example of the soup. We don't know if the speaker is talking about a certain food in general or something in front of them. That would make a difference, wouldn't it?

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Will s.A2Kwiziq community member

Why would I use a stress pronoun?I can see on the lesson about plural stress pronouns that this would be for simple sentences or one word responses. But are there other situations?

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Gabhan B.C1Kwiziq community member

avoir + montéThe lesson says that "J'ai monté mon cheval" means "I mounted my horse" and that avoir + monté means "to mount something". In the test it asks what the meaning is of "'Lucas a monté la nouvelle armoire de sa soeur.'' I selected "Lucas got on his sister's new wardrobe" as one of the possible meanings (to me, "got on" means generally the same thing as "mounted", though "getting on" a wardrobe seems like an odd thing to say). Anyway, that answer was marked as incorrect. I don't understand why. Could you help?

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T. E.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Je serai sûrement en retard d'un quatre d'heureShouldn't it be 'Je serai sûrement en retard un quatre d'heure,' since the article states être en retard (without the de) is a possibility?

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