French language Q&A Forum
Questions answered by our learning community with help from expert French teachers
14,711 questions • 31,882 answers • 970,802 learners
I'll be right with you...
Questions answered by our learning community with help from expert French teachers
14,711 questions • 31,882 answers • 970,802 learners
Hello,
Is there is a reason why some words require a 'consolidated' partitive with the definite article (du / de la) and some only require the 'unconsolidated' partitive (de)? Such as "je bois du vin' vs. nous buvons 2 litres d'eau par jour'?
I am trying to come up with a little rule to make things easier to learn / remember, but it doesn't seem that it works like that.
Thanks,
Alex
Am I missing the meaning altogether, or does not "lèche-vitrine" mean "window-shopping" - that is looking into shop windows and wishing you could buy what you see, without actually doing so?
English: I knew who was invited, but I didn't know the other details.
French: Je savais qui était invité, mais je ne connaissais pas les autres détails.
I got this wrong. My thinking was that 'who' was a direct object and a person or persons, therefore connaître. I would have used connaître in the second part, again détails is the direct object, but I was influenced by my error in the first use of 'to know '; hence I chose savoir. Please explain why the first calls for savoir. Thanks.
Just checking: In looking at the sentence, "Écoutez cette conversation entre Marc et son amie Lola." It is son becuase it is his meaning Marc's friend, but amie becuase Lola is feminine correct? So, if I say "Ma meuillere amie est Laura. I use ma because I am female and meuillere amie because Laura is female. I could also say "Mon meuilleur ami, Charles."
Is it a rule to remove the definite article 'le' in Superlatives while using Possessive Adjectives?
Baptiste est mon pire ennemi.
and not 'le pire' / 'le plus mauvais' ennemi?
Or 'Il est mon meilleur ami.' - even though 'le meilleur' is not used, it is implied with Possessive Adjectives?
Hi,
From the quiz:
What are the ways to UNAMBIGUOUSLY say "It is three fifteen PM." ?
Il est quinze heures et quart. - was marked as a wrong answear and I really don't understand why...
if it start with y is it will be mon or ma
Is it not acceptable here to say 'Cherchez-vous'?
My Kwiz question was "How could you say "Gregory is going away for the holidays." ?
and the answers included pendant, durant and pour. Is "the holidays" considered to be a clearly defined start and end time?
Find your French level for FREE
And get your personalised Study Plan to improve it
Find your French level