French language Q&A Forum

Please explain why the plural is used at the end of this sentence dont les trois bâtiments entourant une charmante place centrale participent d'une atmosphère de petit hameau des plus pittoresques. 

Also cabane is a female noun, shouldn’t it be surplombantes in the phrase below 

l'une des deux cabanes surplombant le domaine

Thank you very much 

"Ah, la voilà !"

Would "là voilà" be an acceptable alternative to la voilà in this context ? 

I've checked reverso and it appears it might be a usable locution.

Thanks. Paul.

My preferred dictionary, Wordreference, distinguishes a car door from an ordinary door in using the word, portière.   Should it not be accepted ? 

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 the lesson on the passé composé of vouloir it says:

Does the same apply to the Plus-que-Parfait?

Why was the subjunctive used for « réunisse » in the first part of the sentence but not for « prend » for the second part?

What are the situations in which we add « de » like this? Is it a general rule for talking about rates? 

Thanks!

In the exercise about the new green car with the brown leather seats, one alternate answer was ‘Ils sont fait en cuir.’ The best answer was ‘Il sont en cuir’. Present tense.   Was the alternate answer in passe compose? If so, wouldn’t that be ‘ils ont fait en cuir?’  

Hi.

I tried some A1 listening today after long time. I was shocked that I couldn't catch what the child was saying. When said says - Le mélange mousse...i heard something entirely different. Wonder if anyone else faced this. I worry about my listening skills a lot anyway.