French language Q&A Forum

Why is "il est vert" unacceptable for a translation of "It is green."?

why is it 'elle faisait son jogging' and not 'elle faisait DU jogging' ? 

Is it acceptable to say 'nuits hivernales' here?

Pam

Hello,

I'd like to know why the C1 quizzes focus so extensively on the Passé Simple. The tense is never used in speaking, (except perhaps in a stilted academic discourse), and is encountered primarily when reading. 

For example, on a recent C1 quiz, seven of the ten questions were on the Passé Simple. I'd rather have my quizzes focus more on idiomatic expressions. Instead, the passé simple questions come up over and over again, even when I score a perfect "10" on a given quiz.

Thanks,

Greg

What is the negation of c’est vrai monsieur

In this exercise, we could use faire face à qqch and affronter to express face something, and what about envisager? 

Could we use this verb to express the same meaning? 

Thank you.

In one of quiz’s question it asks something like qu’est cet homme? And the answer is ; c’est (name of the person). I was wondering if we can say “il est…” instead of c’est. Since its asking about a particular person and while studying “il/elle est” it says if its asking about a specific thing we should use it. I need a bit clarifications please. 

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Hi I don't understand why "Tous les enfants partent mais aucun ne prend le train"  is correct but 

:Tous les enfants partent mais aucun d’entre eux ne prend le train" is not.   

THE LESSON SAYS: We can also express none of them using aucun d'entre eux ne ... / aucune d'entre elles ne ..., I understand "aucun d’entre eux/elles" is used with people and les enfants are people. Thanks.

Pourquoi DE ici et pas ‘des’, ‘du’ et ‘des’?