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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Use of "y"In one lesson (about the use of non plus) there was an example "Il ne joue pas souvent au foot, et toi ? -Je n'y joue pas souvent non plus." Please add to the lesson a link to the lesson that explains this use of "y" (had expected "en") - I'm familiar with y being used to refer to a previously mentioned location but this was something else.
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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Manque de ?I keep getting this one wrong despite having read the lesson multiple times. What property of X determines whether it's "manque X" or "manque de X"? It says manque de in the lesson, but surely l'école is "something" but does not need "de"?
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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Partitive articleIn this lesson I'd like to see something about why no article is needed on the thing that is missing. E.g why is "Je manque du argent pour payers mes factures" wrong?
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yellamaraju s.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Il est arrivé le dernier jour de la semaine ___. ( dernière )'dernier'=last refers to the word le jour. and the later is masculine. Why is it to be made feminine? as was suggested in the test answer. Request clarification.
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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
When is "de" needed?Look at these sentences: Le roi a la pouvoir. Pour faire de la fusion nucléaire une source d'énergie, il faut que... How come one needs "de" in front of "la", but the other doesn't? Is there some handy rule I can apply?
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MARIAN U.A0Kwiziq community member
I have issues with the tenses and how to conjugate
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Carol D.B2Kwiziq community member
"dans laquelle" vs. "ou"Would it also be correct to say "L'époque dans laquelle il vivait..."?
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B. M.B2Kwiziq community member
When do you use etre a instead of la mien, la tien etc?
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J. G.C1Kwiziq community member
FALLOIR passé composé ?
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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
connaître vs connaitreI was just judged incorrect for suggesting "connait" as the 3rd person present indicative version of the verb (should have been connaît). Now, I often go to fr.wiktionary.org to look up words' meaning and conjugations. It lists two verbs, connaitre and connaître with very similar meaning. Are these two distinct verbs or just two alternative spellings of the same verb?
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