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xabi a.C1Kwiziq community member

Question about using Indefinite Pronouns Chacun(e) with Stress Pronouns.

Instead of using the following expression: Chacun(e) d'entre + Stress pronoun, can I use the following:

Chacun(e) de + Stress Pronoun ? Isn't this correct?

Asked 10 months ago

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D. T.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Manquer (de or à)

I really need to focus on THIS topic, not just answer two easy questions and then be forced back into the standard quiz mode where I will forget what I am trying to learn. Why can’t I just focus on this topic? Help!

Asked 1 year ago

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F. M.B2Kwiziq community member

I'm finding the grammar explanations difficultThe grammar explanations describe accurately. When I studied French I had not had a great education including in English so my understanding of the grammar explanations was not great and still isn't. My French got better through sheer repetition on my own part in private study and by living in France for the best part of a year. In other words there was a large amount of learning what is correct and not necessarily why, followed by what sounds right because I lived there long enough and in only francophone company to know. I am sticking with it, I just am also listening to France 24 en direct on Youtube as well because it's how my French improved so much between year 2 and 4 of my degree back in the day. I found in this exercise I was translating differently, sometimes because I'm so rusty, sometimes because the colloquial language has changed and sometimes because I used a different way of expressing it. It is honing my French again but I am wondering if to use aller faire instead of the future tense is as wrong as this exercise suggests i.e. was I supposed to remember it was to practise the future tense or were my translations really as wrong as it suggested?

Asked 9 months ago

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Elaine L.C1Kwiziq community member

Leur/Leurs

Hi - Can someone tell me why 'leurs' was not used when the parents were plural and the presents as well?

Thank you!

Asked 1 year ago

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terri m.A2Kwiziq community member

Asked wrong?

The question was “This is a number written in French: 78,005. How would it be expressed in English? The reply was: 78.005. Am I gapping or was the question supposed to be “ This is a number written in English: 78,005. How would it be expressed in French?

Asked 11 months ago

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L. M.A2Kwiziq community member

Use of accent marks over letters

Hi, do you have a lesson/primer on the various accent marks used over letters, including how they are pronounced and when to use them? I have tried several searches on the site and cannot find it.

I find this topic confusing, and it trips me up in the lessons.

Thanks, Larissa

Asked 10 months ago

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Anne D.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Tarte Tatin à la betterave et aux noix

I’m wondering if there’s a logic for having a singular beetroot in this phrase? Usually you’d make it with more than one, as with "tarte aux pommes"

Asked 1 year ago

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Mohamed B.A1Kwiziq community member

Qui et que

Quand j'utilise le mot qui et quand j'utilise le mot que ?

Asked 11 months ago

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Julie H.C1Kwiziq community member

Je m'en rappelle comme si c'était hier

I thought that se rappeler does not require a de preposition unless it comes before a verb. Why does she say "Je m'en rappelle ..." in the last sentence and not "je me le rappelle ....?" Merci !

Asked 11 months ago

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Layra L.B1Kwiziq community member

verbs with direct object

how can i distinguish which verbs with direct object, which with indirect object? i did a lot of wrong answers because of that.

Asked 10 months ago

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