Looking at several online translators (I do realise they aren’t reliable!) - prendre seems to be used quite often to express set, ie when a partly liquid or wobbly filling is allowed to become more solid by cooling, baking or resting eg "Retirer du feu et laisser reposer jusqu’à ce qu’elle commence à prendre" or "jusqu’à ce que la crème soit bien prise". Is this a recognised usage?

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Ted M.B1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Deja: Before or after the past participle?

The example that brought me here was J'ai déjà travaillé dans un restaurant. The lesson says that the adverb is placed after the past participle, but the correction places it before the past participle

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alice l.B2KwizIQ community member

Doctor's appointment

Would you say a doctor visites ses patients, OR il rend visite à ses patients?

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Frank C.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Une question concernant du Québec, d’Alberta, ou de Manitoba

Dans la phrase "Mais s'il vient du Québec, d'Alberta ou de Manitoba par exemple...", on utilise du Québec mais d’Alberta, au lieu de de l’Alberta et aussi de Manitoba au lieu de de la Maintoba. Ça semble un peu contradictoire. Pouvez-vous me l’expliquer ? Merci, en avance.

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Julie E.C1KwizIQ community member

faire de nouvelles sandales

The expression "to make new sandals" is "faire de nouvelles sandales"

To say I have new sandals made, the correct answer is "Je me fais faire de nouvelles sandales" but I don't understand why it is a reflexive verb. I would have thought the answer is "Je fais faire de nouvelles sandales"

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Anne D.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

Il gèlera sûrement demain soir.The above sentence in one of the tests is translated as : It will probably freeze tomorrow night. In English, probably implies less certainty than surely - is that not the same in French?
(Apologies if this is beside the point of the lesson!)

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Matt P.B1KwizIQ community member

"He was incredible yesterday"

I translated this as 'Il était incroyable hier' - but it was marked wrong, citing the correct answer as, 'Il a été hier' why? Even when I put it into a translator it says it should be était. What am I missing?

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