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Erica S.B2Kwiziq community member

près de / au coin deNous avons mis la hanoukkia ________ la fenêtre. I thought 'au coin de' meant by/near. In retrospect 'près de' sounds better. But why can't 'au coin de' be used in this case? Is it only used for placement in a room or by a building (geographical) vs by a person or object? Thanks!

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Héctor V.B1Kwiziq community member

Why I cant say "C'est absurde" instead of C'est n'importe quoi"?

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D. L.B1Kwiziq community member

Seems odd....Nous venons juste d'apprendre la nouvelle. We've just heard the news..... I find it rather disconcerting and only slightly confusing, but often for me the structure and specific wording in french is left somewhat "open ended". This sentence is a perfect example. We have learned that Entendre is to hear and Apprendre is to learn, and yet here you see them used almost in error. If we are saying we have just learned of the news, we should state that and if we have just heard it then why not say that? Why use the word learned and say heard? Seems odd. Further, why include "just" in a sentence that already implies this meaning with the passé récent of Nous venons d'.... if we translate this sentence Without the word "just" as shown above.... what do we have? Nous venons d'apprendre la nouvelle... ? And we are going to use Heard in the translation, why not, Nous venons d'entendre la nouvelle? Lastly, why do we not use Les nouvelles for the news, i think technically La Nouvelle is the new?!? It seems we say a lot things we don't mean.... and mean a lot of things we don't say..... perhaps it's the same in English.... can someone offer me some sound logic in this regard? Nous venons d'entendre les nouvelles... We just heard the news....Thank you so much....

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Manal K.A0Kwiziq community member

How do i reconstruct the question "où a-t-elle appris le francais" to include est-ce que?If i follow the rule, then it should be "où est-ce que a-t-elle appris le francais" but is that correct?

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Ann H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

use of enIn the following: J'ai encore des cadeaux à acheté. Since it's des cadeaux why is it transformed to Marie les a déjà tous achetés rather than Marie en a déjà achetés?

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Abby W.A1Kwiziq community member

With perfect tense?Salut, In the example it says 'nous n'avons acheté aucune voiture' so does this not follow the normal rule with negatives that it goes around the auxiliary verb in the perfect tense? Merci!

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B. @.A1Kwiziq community member

Can I say 'je prends un break (ou une pause) ?

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Richard R.C1Kwiziq community member

when and how do you use: depuis quand ?

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D. L.B1Kwiziq community member

La difficulté.....La difficulté est les mots "l'histoire" = story or the stories" et "l'histoire = history or the history". de plus, nous ne disons pas "The maths" plural as it relates to mathematics in English. The two test questions were thus very confusing. Can you please explain... Thank you.

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Matt R.B1Kwiziq community member

Please explain: Il a fait exprès de ne pas rendre la monnaie.Why "ne pas", by itself, not around a verb?

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