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Cheryl N.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

mauvais an adverb here?: "Il faisait mauvais hier"

Bonjour,

Mauvais is usually an adjective, but is it being used as an adverb when we say the weather is bad?

e.g. il fait mauvais.

or is it still being an adjective, and is modifying the noun: 'the weather' (replaced here by the pronoun: "it"), please?

Cheryl

Asked 7 years ago

ian L.C1Kwiziq community member

Elision and "ne ... pas allé."The spoken example of "Je ne suis pas allé au cinéma." has no hint of elision between 'pas' and 'allé'. I am always baffled by where things get elided and where they are not. Are there any rules about this? Where should I look? Merci beaucoup, Ian L.

Asked 8 years ago

Patricia L.C1Kwiziq community member

I think that "I Ate" is past tense of the verb to eat.

Hi, can you explain why "I ate all the cakes" is not a correct translation of

"Elle a mangé tout le gâteau!"Merci

Asked 5 years ago

Leon P.C1Kwiziq community member

But sometimes "celles" ... means "these", as in "Celles sont les miennes." Right?

Asked 9 years ago

Timothy H.C1Kwiziq community member

Si j'étais toiI recently came across this phrase in a conditional sentence while reading: "Si j'étais toi,...", but I can't find any grammatical reference to explain how the stressed pronoun can be used as a direct object after the verb instead of what sounds worse but looks grammatically correct: "Si je t'étais,..." Is this allowed just for emphasis or allowed within certain clauses, and is it unique to the verb être?

Asked 8 years ago

Jho L.A0Kwiziq community member

Je viens de Philippines

Asked 6 years ago

Max K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Quelqu'un and its derivatives

Why are quelqu'un, quelqu'une, quelques-uns, quelques-unes left out? These indefinite pronouns are more natural IMO than certain, certains, certaine, certaines and mean the same thing. In both cases you carve out a subset of individuals w/o further identification. Per robert online certain is a synonym. Here is modern and absolute meaning of QUELQU'UN..........

1 Une personne totalement indéterminée. « On dirait que quelqu'un joue du piano quelque part » (Alain-Fournier).➙ on. Le besoin de parler àquelqu'un.

Asked 7 years ago

Nicholas D.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

why not "tu es chanceux"

Asked 8 years ago

Susan J.A1Kwiziq community member

what does jamais mean ?

if we use ne ... jamais to say never then when do we use ne pas?

Asked 9 years ago

helen w.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

They would be lucky: "ils auraeints de la chance" I saw the avoir verb used here: "ils auraeints de la chance." Why not use etre ("would be"): Ils seraient de la chance. Is it a rule that the avoir verb always used with luck versus the etre verb?

Asked 8 years ago

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