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John B.C1Kwiziq community member

Test scoresI've been trying to reach a "confidence" level of 90% at C1 level. I got to 89.9%, took 2 further C1 tests and got 100% on each, but my level slipped back to 89.6%. How's that?

Asked 9 years ago

Dzoan L.B1Kwiziq community member

m'endormeMa mère me berçait dans ses bras jusqu'à ce que je m'endorme. This sentence confuses me. What tense is m'endorme? Is that present tense? Why is it present tense here? Shouldn't it be l'imparfait as well? Merci.

Asked 8 years ago

Nadya S.A2Kwiziq community member

J'ai trente neuf ans Comment dire "on my next birtuday I will be.." En septembre prochain j'aurai quarante ans

Asked 9 years ago

Mike P.B2Kwiziq community member

So if it is an old fashion expression, how do you express this in modern French?

Asked 9 years ago

Cheryl N.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Why use mauvais and not mal in this kwizik quizz sentence, please?cette sorcière sent très mauvais -Cheryl

Asked 9 years ago

Timothy H.C1Kwiziq community member

Si j'étais toiI recently came across this phrase in a conditional sentence while reading: "Si j'étais toi,...", but I can't find any grammatical reference to explain how the stressed pronoun can be used as a direct object after the verb instead of what sounds worse but looks grammatically correct: "Si je t'étais,..." Is this allowed just for emphasis or allowed within certain clauses, and is it unique to the verb être?

Asked 8 years ago

Andy N.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Indefinite articlesWhen the lesson states that en, as a pronoun, can replace a noun + a quantity, is this effectively saying that en can replace any noun introduced by an indefinite article? (and the indefinite article itself too of course!)

Asked 9 years ago

Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Pronounciation of "J'arrive"I was watching an episode of "fais pas ci, fais pas ça". One person kept telling another to hurry up so they could leave. She responds: - J'arrive ! In a lesson here I just learnt why it's "arrive" rather than "arriverai", but what surprised me was that the final "e" of arrive was clearly pronounced, which I believe is not usually the case. Is there some rule for when to pronounce an "e" at the end of a word?

Asked 9 years ago

akanksh r.A1Kwiziq community member

how to differenciate between partitif and contracte articles????

Asked 6 years ago

Hope O.A1Kwiziq community member

Placement of même

Why is it sometimes before the noun and sometimes after when used as an adjective? And I see some patterns in it's placement as an adverb but if you have any advice on that as well that would be great.

Asked 6 years ago

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