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Parvathi S.A2Kwiziq community member

Don't we use futur anterieur when quand is used?

Quand is an indicator of futur anterieur, when quand is used with simple, isn't next tense is anterieur?
My mentor taught it something like that..

Asked 1 year ago

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Aashpreet K.A1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

"Anyone" in Negation

So, as the rule in this lesson states that in Negation we use Ne...Personne instead of N'importe qui for saying 'anyone' ...so, should it be? -

- Elle ne fait personne confiance. [She does not trust anyone.] Because the negation surrounds the main conjugated verb?

Asked 2 years ago

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Mark S.B1Kwiziq community member

How to say, "I misunderstood." - svp

If I wanted to say, "I misunderstood," would any one of the following be acceptable?

Je me suis mépris.

J'ai mal compris.

Je me suis trompé.

Asked 1 year ago

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AARADHYA S.A0Kwiziq community member

What will be the inversion of this?-

"ce sont des filles"

Asked 2 years ago

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Anne D.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Question about registers

I’d be interested to get a feel for how often inversion is used in everyday speech and the register of the examples below, from further down the thread. Presumably the one with quand at the end is the least formal?

Quand Juliette et Pauline ont-elles déménagé ?

Juliette et Pauline, quand ont-elles déménagé ?

Juliette et Pauline, elles ont déménagé quand ?

Asked 1 year ago

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Paul F.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

The first sentence differences in translation

In the first sentence of this exercise, "the thief" has been translated as "le criminel" when I think "le voleur" would be a more accurate translation. Also in that first line, the punctuation in French is different from the original English (but that is probably less important)

Asked 1 year ago

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Ezel E.C1Kwiziq community member

they did nothing

Is it wrong to say "ils n'ont fait rien" instead of "ils n'ont rien fait"

Asked 2 years ago

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Brigid E.B2Kwiziq community member

Blanches agreement

Bonjour,

I recently did an exercise where I learnt about when colour adjectives stay the same in French, e.g. "When the colour is described by a phrase containing two or more words". The phrase was "la veste bleu canard".

Here though the word "blanches" does agree with "pages" and "alternées", which I thought were the words "blanches" is describing.

I would just like to know the reason for the agreement in that phrase.

Merci :)

Asked 2 years ago

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JAVIER T.A0Kwiziq community member

I have given up on this site - this has been a very expensive mistake!

No matter what I do, which speaker/earphones I use, or how many times I switch the playback on my system the sound file examples SIMPLY WILL NOT PLAY. I may as well be reading a textbook and practicing mispronunciation. If I use ANY other site, including the Lawless Spanish site, ALL sound clips play with NO issues whatsoever. I bought this system with a two-year subscription. It has been a useless and costly mistake without being able to actually hear how to correctly pronounce anything. Does anyone else have this problem?

Asked 2 years ago

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F. M.B2Kwiziq community member

I'm finding the grammar explanations difficultThe grammar explanations describe accurately. When I studied French I had not had a great education including in English so my understanding of the grammar explanations was not great and still isn't. My French got better through sheer repetition on my own part in private study and by living in France for the best part of a year. In other words there was a large amount of learning what is correct and not necessarily why, followed by what sounds right because I lived there long enough and in only francophone company to know. I am sticking with it, I just am also listening to France 24 en direct on Youtube as well because it's how my French improved so much between year 2 and 4 of my degree back in the day. I found in this exercise I was translating differently, sometimes because I'm so rusty, sometimes because the colloquial language has changed and sometimes because I used a different way of expressing it. It is honing my French again but I am wondering if to use aller faire instead of the future tense is as wrong as this exercise suggests i.e. was I supposed to remember it was to practise the future tense or were my translations really as wrong as it suggested?

Asked 1 year ago

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