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Jeramy R.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

S'arrêter v arrêter

Why does one say "j'ai arrêté de parler" and not "je me suis arrêté de parler"?

arrêter is a transitive verb and thus to my understanding takes an object but the verb parler can not be an object in the example above. So how do I know what one to use.

Asked 4 years ago

Maren W.C1KwizIQ community member

Les yeux vs mes yeux

In the sentence "my eyes are blue..." I wrote 'Les yeux sont bleus (I forgot to add the j'ai), but it was corrected to "Mes yeux sont bleus." I thought you did not use possessives with body parts?

Asked 6 years ago

Carole G.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

One of the examples is: Nous viendrons à 9 heures. Ça vous va ?

Instead of Ça vous va ? would you say Ça vous êtes? Thank you

Asked 8 years ago

Asmita R.A1KwizIQ community member

Mona Lisa to Jaconde

Why is Mona Lisa changed to Jaconde ? And why is bateau mouche and not fluvial?

Asked 7 years ago

Wolf B.A1KwizIQ community member

Is this grammar right? (imparfait tense)For an assessment, we have to recount events of what we did with a friend in imperfect tense (l'imparfait). I have this sentence here which I am not sure of the grammar. Nous partageons nos problèmes et aidions les uns et autres. (we shared our problems and helped each other) Am confused.

Asked 9 years ago

Nikita T.A1KwizIQ community member

Aren't we using Present Perfect Continuous here, and not just Present Perfect?We should have been using Present Perfect Continuous when describing actions continuing in present since some undefined time in the past, shouldn't we?

Asked 8 years ago

Jeff H.C1KwizIQ community member

Passé composé + avant que : Why subjonctif? It seems very factual (vs doubt)As I see more examples with the subjunctive, I’ve been trying to get the feel for the sense of the usage rather than relying on memorizing the patterns. One example though eludes me as to where the sense of doubt is coming from. In particular, the use of passé composé seems to remove the uncertainty. This statement seems rather factual vs the other examples in the exercise.
Tu es arrivé avant que je n'aie fini mes devoirs.You arrived before I finished my homework
Is there a way of interpreting this to get the sense of the subjunctive mood?

Asked 5 years ago

R. E.B1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

In the example "J'ai bu un tiers de la bouteille". The audio speaker is a woman and the word bottle is feminine-why use the masculine version tiers?Thank you.

Asked 7 years ago

Joakim R.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Gender of hyphenated nounsIn A1, there is a long lesson that tries to tell us how to infer a word's gender based on word ending patterns. Based on that, I can correctly guess that both "lave" and "vaisselle" are feminine, so why does dictionaries tell me "lave-vaisselle" is masculine ?

Asked 10 years ago

William B.A2KwizIQ community member

Porquoi “tu appelles, pas de t’appelles?

Asked 8 years ago

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