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M. I.C1KwizIQ community member

How would one say 'I came up by car' if referring to driving up a hill ?

If 'Je suis monté en voiture' means 'I got into the car', how does one say (if visiting someone on a hill and they asks how you got there) 'I came up by car ?
Surely that is also 'Je suis monté en voiture'.....

Asked 2 years ago

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Séamus H.C1KwizIQ community member

C'est/ elle

Pourquoi dit on ce n'est pas au lieu de dire elle n'est pas une voiture électrique ?

Merci

Asked 1 year ago

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Karl G.B2KwizIQ community member

Ou s'il s'arrête brusquement

Why is, ”ou s'il s'arrête brusquement” in third person singular instead of third person plural?

Merci

Asked 2 years ago

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Martin B.KwizIQ community member

mais ils ne riment pas toujours avec "économies". Not sure the translation “but they don't always rhyme with "savings" works in English.

Asked 2 years ago

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Anne D.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

Two small questions

I’ve been studying French church architecture this week and had thought I understood that the saint themself is written with no hyphen, but if their name is used for a road, church, town etc, it becomes hyphenated. For example, Saint Denis for the person and Saint-Denis for the basilica or commune. So I was surprised in this exercise to see the archangel spelt Saint-Michel.

I also noticed that sauvé and sauvée are both accepted for Orléans - presume either is ok here?

Asked 1 year ago

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Debra L.A1KwizIQ community member

future vs present

How to say "I will arrive": j'arrive or je va arrive?

Asked 1 year ago

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Andrea O.B1KwizIQ community member

D' vers des

Pour la phrase, "pendant que les adultes admireront..." j'ai dit, "tandiq que des adultes admireront..." Une correction j'ai recu etait "tandis que d'adultes admireront..." Vous pouvez expliquer pourquoi on dit d'adultes et pas des adultes?

Merci

Asked 3 years ago

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TL H.A1KwizIQ community member

ça or il/elle?

Hi there, why is it 'La grammaire francaise? Je trouve ça trop difficile,' and not 'Je trouve elle trop difficile?'

Thanks!

Asked 1 year 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 2 years ago

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Johnny C.C1KwizIQ community member

Hard to understand some of the dialogue

Way too fast to understand!

Asked 2 years ago

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