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Jillian M.C1KwizIQ community member

A general question

Why do you use translations in the full text playback that are not the translations said to be the best when providing feedback on the student-submitted translations? Are they perhaps the ones used most by native speakers.

Asked 3 years ago

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AGBLORWU B.A0KwizIQ community member

Some thing to speed up learning process?something to speed up learning process

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Max K.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

avoir du mal a

I'm not sure why is not an acceptable way to express struggle. From Le grand Robert:

II V. intr. (Fin XIe). Se donner de la peine, du mal*. ➙ Appliquer (s'), efforcer (s'), évertuer (s'), fatiguer (et se fatiguer), gémir (fig.), trimer (fam.) ;→ 1. Coût, cit. 27 ; élite, cit. 5. Peiner comme une bête (cit. 11) de somme, comme un forçat… Peiner jour (cit. 42) après jour. — Élève qui peine sur une composition (cit. 8) latine (au sens III, 2, de peine). Il peinait pour s'exprimer (→ Facilement, cit. 3). — Par ext. Respiration, souffle qui peine (→ Oxygène, cit. 3).

Asked 3 years ago

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Sue B.A2KwizIQ community member

Where do Adverbs come in a sentence

How do I remember the where adverbs come either after or before the verb.

Asked 2 years ago

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mohame p.A1KwizIQ community member

Using past tense with si, non, oui

Tu ne vas pas au clup?

....., Je suis allé hier.

Is it correct to use (Si or Non)

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Aashpreet K.A1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Ne...aucun/aucune is used with Countable or Uncountable Nouns or Both?

Is the negation Ne...aucun/aucune always used with countable nouns?? '(Je n'ai aucune idée.') I am getting confused because of this post here -

https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/questions/view/could-you-also-use-aucun

In this post, Chris mentions that....aucun refers to countable objects, then how can we say - Nous n’y voyons aucun mal. [We don’t see any harm in it.]

Here the noun mal is not countable.

Please clarify.

Asked 2 years ago

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Andrew G.C1KwizIQ community member

En supposant que/ En admettant que

Bonjour,

Est-ce qu'il y a une nuance sous-jacente liée à l'utilisation de "en admettant que/en supposant que" pour dénoter une réserve/restriction? Par exemple, si l'on dit "J'irai le voir en mars en supposant/en admettant qu'il n'ait pas trouvé un nouvel emploi ailleurs d'ici là", vaut-il mieux d'opter pour "à condition que" ou même "si" pour dégager une impression plus neutre?

Merci d'avance

Asked 3 years ago

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Anne D.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

Last sentence

I don’t think the "grand" in the final sentence sounded quite right, more like gros. It was fine in the recording of the whole extract but not in the individual exercise. Or is it my ears?! (Une nouvelle que nous avions accueillie avec grand soulagement !)

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Rylan N.A0KwizIQ community member

How to say

What the best way to say "I will not go" in French

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andy f.B2KwizIQ community member

Using partitives and descriptions

Pourquoi la phrase avec des cocotiers manque t-Elle les partitifs (avec des cocotiers, du sable), or is it because it is like a dream 'aah, cocotiers, sable banc, cocktails

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