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Glen B.C1Kwiziq community member

How can an always intransive cerb and an always transitive verb be used interchandeably? E.g. Partir/quitter à midi.If ‘Partir’ is always intransitive and ‘Quitter’ is always transitive, how come both ‘partir/quitter à midi’ work here? Thanks to anyone who can clear up my confusion on this. Glen

Asked 2 years ago

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John M.C1Kwiziq community member

quelques and peu de

I have few friends

Are both translations correct?

J'ai quelques amis

J'ai peu d'amis

Regars, John M

Asked 3 years ago

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Archana J.C1Kwiziq community member

Des doutes

Can you tell me how to decide between usage of 'de' and 'des'

for example

regarder des vidéos de chatons et de bébés

j'ai écrit

vidéos des chatons et des bébés!

2)Also how to say

(Its quite congfusing)

Is it

C'est déroutant!

Ca me confond un peu!

Merci beaucoup

Asked 3 years ago

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Anne D.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Punctuation problems in this exercise

I found I had more difficulty with the punctuation that the words! A lot of English writing increasingly drops commas these days, and it might be helpful to know the French rules! For example, I wouldn’t put a comma before "in Spain" in the first sentence.

Asked 3 years ago

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Aashpreet K.A1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Tous les étés, nous allions dans le sud de la France.

Why didn't we use '..nous allions au sud de la France'? When do we use 'au sud' and when do we use 'dans le sud'? Or 'au nord'/ 'dans le nord'?

https://www.lawlessfrench.com/vocabulary/directions/

Asked 1 year ago

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Archana J.C1Kwiziq community member

Des doutes

Bonjour

Est-ce que je pourrais écrire

1)je m'assieds 'au coin' au lieu de 'dans le coin'

2)prendre une bière 'du frigo' a la place de 'dans le frigo'

Merci encore

Asked 3 years ago

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Paris K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Use of Subjunctive Hello team and learners:

Please can some explain why the subjunctive mood is used in the sentence - Qu'est-ce que tu dirais qu'on se fasse une double séance en son honneur?

Asked 2 years ago

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Karina T.A0Kwiziq community member

"." but no "." ?

On the 4th or 5th question, in the english phrase they wish us to translate, at the end of the phrase, there is a point ("."). But when i put the point in my french phrase, it was marked as wrong, causing me to lose points, I assume.

Please fix this error or explain it to me!

Thanks,

Karina

Asked 2 years ago

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Freya L.C1Kwiziq community member

Does it have to be someone doing something or just something happening?

It says jusqu'à ce que and subjunctive is for until someone does something so for example 'we kissed until his parents arrived'. But could it also apply to 'we talked until it became too late'? So a second part of the sentence not done by someone but a situation without a person and action.

Asked 2 years ago

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G. D.C1Kwiziq community member

Epaisse couche

Why does "épaisse" go before the noun? Is "couche épaisse" incorrect?

Asked 3 years ago

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