French language Q&A Forum

Why do we use the definitive article (les) and then the indefinitive/ partitive article?

De plus, depuis 1992, les citoyens françaises sont aussi des citoyens européens et ils peuvent voter aux élections européennes.

bonjour mes amis,

est-ce qu'on peut utiliser « à côté de » comme un sinonyme pour « avec » ? Ou c'est seulement pour la distance ?

par ex.: C'est notre livre, on va l'étudier à côté d'une bonne méthode pédagogique.

Merci bcp d'avance.

Can I just check the spelling of the second "apparus" in Céline’s reply to Jenny-Anne? 

She says "The correct answer was -  Both sentences are correct 

as you can say  Puis, nous sommes apparus and Puis nous avons apparus"

The notes state that Martin aime Sarah can say ´Martin loves Sarah’ but my answer was marked wrong, saying it should have been ´Martin aime bien Sarah’

What pronoun could work for  a mixture of life genders as a collective pronoun :They(John and Mary) are eating.

Hi Cécile , I wish to make a suggestion concerning the translation to English of two sentences in the examples and resources section. I suggest that you add THAT , to illustrate the difference in the usage of que between French and English ( in English we drop but not in French). So I suggest that the English translation for the French sentence il ne croit pas que nous lui voulions du mal becomes; he doesn’t believe THAT we want to hurt him, and the second sentence to change is: je doute qu’ils veuillent venir becomes I doubt THAT they will come.  A suggestion to highlight the difference. Especially that in the last sentence you have used that in the translation. Thank you.

In a previous lesson, J’allais + infinitive = was going to _ . This example that is captioned, is translated as ‘ I was enrolling at university’ instead of ‘I was going to enroll’. 

Pourquoi pas je me suis matée? C'est une femme qui parle. 

My question is about:Que dessinent les enfants ?What are the children drawing?, given in the examples;Could you also say, "Que dessinent-ils les enfants?" ?

Je suis un peu perdu. Pourquoi la texte utilise 'souhaitez' et pas 'souhaiteriez'? J'ai vu que cette texte traduire comme 'What time would you like this call?'