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Anish K.A1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Hi, "I earn a thousand euros a month"what will be the translation - should I use Un millions Euros or or Million Euros

Asked 8 years ago

Ann H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

If d'ici une heure can mean within an hour or by 1:00, how can one know which meaning to take from it?

Asked 7 years ago

D B.A2Kwiziq community member

Je me demande, n'est-ce pas la même chose en anglais? "as in French you cannot have a noun without article." ou "without an article"?

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 9 years ago

Chapel H.A2Kwiziq community member

Ça vs C'est vs Il estI have read the lessons on all these. In a quiz, asking me to translate "It's getting on my nerves," I chose "Il est" because "it's" must be referring to something specific. We don't know what, but no one says generally "It's getting on my nerves" without "it's" referring to something specific. The correct answer is given as "Ça". Even if "it's" was referring to something general, why would it be "Ça" instead of "C'est"?

Asked 5 years ago

Sherry M.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

"J'étais mariée quand j'avais 20 ans." "I was married when I was 20." Does that mean that during my 20s I was married and not that I got married when I was 20? Thanks!

Asked 9 years ago

Johnny L.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Pourvu?Pourvu means "let's hope"? How does that work? It doesn't even end in -ons.

Asked 9 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

D. A.B2Kwiziq community member

Would it be correct to say, "Je suis dans mon vélo."

Asked 8 years ago

Michael R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

ChuiThis is a good humoured chat between two Lyon friends of mine. Tu l'a dit bouffi !!! , Eh chui pas bouffi. Is chui short for / Lyon-ish for ' I am' Mike

Asked 9 years ago

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