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AurélieKwiziq Head of French, Native French Teacher

Susan suggested a great mnemonic not to mix up être and faire in the passé simple :"faire has an "i," être does not, so the passé simple of faire would have an "i," and the passé simple of être would not. It's a bit simplistic, but it helped me keep the two verbs straight until I didn't have to think about which was which any more."

Asked 8 years ago

Boon Hong T.A1Kwiziq community member

what about cities? J'aime la paris. or J'aime paris

Asked 8 years ago

Kathy h.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Pas mal de ...Bonjour, I've heard that one can use "pas mal de ..." to indicate "quite a lot", and I just want to confirm this is correct. For example: "Il y avait pas mal de monde à la fête". Merci ! Kathy

Asked 8 years ago

Stella D.A1Kwiziq community member

Quel age avez vous?

Asked 8 years ago

sheila h.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

au sous-sol.I understand that we use être w hen certain verbs are followed by a preposition but isn't 'au' as in 'J'ai descendu les boîtes au sous-sol.', a preposition or have I got that wrong - again!

Asked 8 years ago

Jennifer C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

In the sentencenous avons ouvert les fenêtres de peur qu'il n'y ait un fuite de gas.In the sentence, which may not be exactly correct, but is more or les as i remeber it, the translatio is ....for frar that there would be a gas leak. Can this be translated as might be or even as there is a gas leak. Like many english people i am a bit hazy about the subjunctive in my own language, hence the question.

Asked 8 years ago

Carrie W.A0Kwiziq community member

I am from the Gold Coast. Would you drop 'the' and say Je viens de Gold Coast?

Asked 8 years ago

Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Use of imparfaitIn this week's writing challenge we had ".. I've received a letter from your company. It notified me that .." -> "J'ai reçu une lettre de votre compagnie. Elle m'informait que ..." How can we know that this is better than " Elle m'a informé que ..."

Asked 8 years ago

Cheryl N.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

The position of "prochain/prochaine", relative to nouns.In the following sentence from a quizz: Aujourd'hui, les fantômes ________(choisissent) leur prochaine victime. - Why is "prochaine" positioned before the noun, please? Yet, if we say "next week", we say: "la semaine prochaine". Cheryl

Asked 8 years ago

sheila h.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

What is the meaning of "Aurélie n'est qu'allée au marché"? The above is one of the questions in the B1 Kwiz test. I just cannot understand the difference between the answers:- Aurélie only went to the market (and did nothing else) or (and went nowhere else)? I've tried reading the explanation page over and over but I don't see the difference between - and did nothing else and went nowhere else!!! Can someone make it simpler for a simple brain perhaps??

Asked 8 years ago

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