French language Q&A Forum

How in the world is this translated "She needs a car" when "Il lui faut" is "HE needs"?!

Not sure why de not des.  The cited lesson suggests it should be des.

We are told "penser" takes the indicative for positive and takes the subjunctive for the negative.  Why use the subjunctive, "aient", for "pensez vous que ces legendes aient"  Why not "ont"?

Hi, 

I was wondering why "je veux" is considered impolite in most contexts, but "voulez-vous" isn't, as they're both forms of "vouloir". Is it only impolite to use the verb "vouloir" when talking about yourself? So would, for example, "il veut" or "ils veulent" be polite?

Thanks in advance!

Why is 'disputer' not conjugated here ? Also, is 'vous' reflexive here ?

The theory says these are interchangeable yet I used malgré and was marked wrong

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

In the lesson on the passé composé of vouloir it says:

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

I didn't finish this exercise the first time round. I've come back to it - a long time later - but unfortunately it doesn't remind me which words/phrases to look up in advance, so had to guess all of them! Please could you do a reminder for when this happens?

I am surprised by the position of 'donc'.  

As an adverb I would have expected it between pas and été. 

As a conjunction I would have expected it after été, or at the beginning of the phrase