French language Q&A Forum

Would someone please explain to me why you would write "Je me brosse les dents deux fois par jour." in stead of "Je me brosse mes dents ..." I'm uncertain why you couldn't use mes even though you're also using the reflexive verb. Merci!

the conjugation of "lire" goes on like "lis" can someone explain how does it work? how come there's an "s"? 

When I look up "failli" in Google translate, it has "bankrupt." Yet the words "failli sursauter" translate as "almost startled" (comme "presque sursauter).

So it kind of means "You failed to be startled"? (Failli faire, mais no?) Wow... that's a stretch.

Is the meaning of "presque" (almost) slightly different then? 

C'est possible de rendre la vidéo accessible aux États-Unis?

When do I use j'ai or je suis because they both mean the same thing so I don't know when's the time to use which I have

There is a sentence in the text:
" les odeurs de cannelle et d'épices évoquent des souvenirs d'enfance"

I seem to get this wrong quite often - why is there no article after de in all of these cases (de cannelle, d'epices and d'enfance).

Thank you!

Merci de m’avoir fait découvrir ce site vraiment amusant. J’y suis abonnée. : ) 

I don't understand why the present tense - devient is used instead of the future tense.

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

Is the phrasing « but here it doesn’t mean no / any’ » not confusing in the last portion of the lesson, since the entry in this latter part addresses un/une where they earlier indicate de etc being the indicator of no / any….  The « but » should be removed, no?