French language Q&A Forum

I answered "le votre". Would I say "le tienne" to a stranger, for example?

Peut-on dire : qu'est-ce qui est dans la boîte ? Ou faut-il dire qu'y a-t-il dans la boîte ?

I have let my writing and dictation practice slip because I’m speaking French on a daily basis, but a lesson like this one brings home the need to keep at these weekend challenges, keep practicing, keep adding to the vocabulary bank, keep addressing the grammar. 

Would it be correct to use the three-layer structure I wrote down below, when building sentences with double pronouns? Imagine it like a matrix with three columns:

ME, TE, SE, NOUS, VOUS   |   LE, LA, LES   |   LUI, LEUR

Ex  Nous vous | les envoyons demain. | e_m_p_t_y

Ex  e_m_p_t_y | Je la | leur explique clairement.

Ex  Je vous | la donne. | e_m_p_t_y

Ex  e_m_p_t_y | Je la | lui donne.

Hello,

Why is it not 'tu n'as pas de clope?'

I thought we used a partitive article rather than a definite article when doing negations? So, in this case, de vs. une.

why is 'ça' used to refer to 'le recyclage' and not 'il'? Like 'Il réduit la pollution' for instance or 'il limite des déchets'?

Please confirm are these Adverbial Affirmative Imperatives correct? 

- Donne-lui-en! [Give him some!]

- Emmenez-m’y!  [Take me there!]

- Emmenez-nous-y! [Take us there!]

- Amuse-t’y! / Amusez-t'y! [Have fun there!]

The pronunciation of ‘paysage’ was too difficult, I could not recognise it. Otherwise I did Ok. 

Does the placement of 'Du tout' affect the overall meaning of the sentence? Could it be placed in different places to give the sentence different meanings? Are there any rules of where (before or after what) we are allowed to place 'du tout' ? How does the placement of 'du tout' change when there are prepositions within the sentence ?

I look in the examples, and see 'du tout' placed after adjectives and nouns, does that negate other parts of the sentence?