French language Q&A Forum

Hi,

How often can I take the quiz of the topics in my notebook and how long do I have to wait after first attempt to do it again please? thank you.

Why is this translated as 'C'est une vraie... ' and not 'Elle est une vraie...' as we are talking about her specifically and not just the concept?

I am doing B1 French and reading Camus La Peste( hard going sometimes) On page 173 he says"elles suffirent" which I take to mean they were enough,and I struggled with the conjugation but I found it as passive simple on the Lawless website. I interrogated Gemini AI and it suggested that passive simple is a compound tense requiring auxiliary from etre...despite its name. It also suggested Camus often used passe simple in a stylistic for without the auxiliary. So,is the Lawless conjugation right,and is elles suffirent passe simple, and please,what is going on?

Why is Marseille est la deuxième plus grande ville de France not written as Marseille est la deuxième la plus grande ville de France? Shouldn't it be la plus grande

Use contacted articles to complete the following sentence 

J'habite _____pune 

J'aime le fait que certains des Européens peuvent se moquer de ce problème.

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

J'ajouterais « se rejoindra » en plus de « se retrouver » et « se réunir ». :-)

Je pense que « les tubes » seraient meilleures que « les hits », non ?

Le temps

But

La mi-temps ?

Please confirm