French language Q&A Forum

What is the difference between j'ai vingt and and je suis grand considering they are both followed by a consonant that is not h

But when is it Avoir vs Etre? I cant seem to learn the rule for this

Do they both mean the same thing? And if so, why does one of them change depending on whether you are a man or a woman, and one of them doesn't? 

In english (maybe just NZ?) we use the expression "tell me about it" as a sort of ironic way of saying that you share not-so-good experiences with someone. eg. Speaker 1 - it was so hot last night, I couldn't sleep. Speaker 2 - tell me about it (meaning I had the same experience). Is Parle-m'en used the same way? 

Hi. In a Kwiz this was the question:

Avant que je n'________ le bruit, je dormais à poings fermés.

The answer was aie entendu.

Can someone please explain the n' that's in there?

I thought this was "je recommanderais" - "which I would recommend" - rather than "which I will recommend".

Two questions: 

1) In this context, would the French always say "I will recommend" rather than " I would recommend"?

2) If not, is there any way of detecting the difference, aurally, between first person in the future and in the conditional ?

1st paragraph, 2nd sentence:   saurez-vous retrouvez is translated as : "can you match"   --  can you say a little about how savoir in the futur is used in this case?

The vocab list for Vive les legumes has pumpkin as une citrouille, yet it was marked incorrect with les potirons as the correct answer. Where did I go wrong? Thank you