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Jim L.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

"la ligne la plus petite que vous arrivez à déchiffrez clairement"

I don't understand why déchiffrer is in the "vous" form here. Surely after "arrivez à" it should be in the infinitive ? Or does "Arriver à" behave differently from most verbs with à after them ?

Asked 2 years ago

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Sophia Z.A1Kwiziq community member

Noun genders

How do you know what gender a word is if it's not a person

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Jamie H.C1Kwiziq community member

Multiple conjugations with Nulle Part

When combining conjugations like ne jamais and ne nulle part, do we keep the nulle part rule of going at the end of the clause?

Example:
Je n'ai jamais nulle part allé
Ou

Je n'ai jamais allé nulle part

I never went anywhere

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Max K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Descendre - how to ascertain whether it takes avoir or etre in passe compose

As near as I can tell, no transitive usage of DESCENDRE is followed by a preposition, and whenever descendre does take a preposition, it's an intransitive verb. This doesn't tell which of the many meanings of DESCENDRE obtain, but it does seem a reasonable heuristic device. Your thoughts....?

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Jane C.C1Kwiziq community member

use of subjonctif

I thought if vouloir was used as negative phrase, you didn't use the subjonctif tense...am I wrong?

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JULIA L.Kwiziq community member

Do I use imparfait or plus que parfait for this sentence?

He had 83 years (he died at 83 years old).

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Reo S.A2Kwiziq community member

why ''quels bonbons tu as choisis''why not ''quels bonbons tu as choisi''?

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Jo T.A2Kwiziq community member

Faire de V jouer à - water polo

Hi Kwiziq

When trying to answer the waterpolo query, my study notes indicated most of the time “jouer à” was used for team sports; plus if a ball is used, also “jouer à”.

I therefore used jouer, and it was marked wrong and I was supposed to use “faire de”.

Any comments on how you can help us to remember/learn this topic?

Thank you in anticipation.

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Sydney B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

writing exercise, "The town of Gruyères", grammatical point

In the exercise "The Town of Gruyères", the translation of "Before we even entered the picturesque village," is given as "Avant même que nous entrions dans le bourg/village pittoresque,". I think it should be 'nous sommes entrés dans ...'. What am I getting wrong there? Also, I'm aking my self, does an optional 'ne explétif' go before 'entrions'?

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