French language Q&A Forum

This was one of the questions that I encountered here.

Sentence:

I gave my old computer to an association.'' ?(HINT: here old as "that I used to own")

It turns out the correct translation is: J'ai donné mon ancien ordinateur...

Why is that?

I think it should be - J'ai donné mon ordinateur ancien...

Since, the adjective after the noun means = old

Can someone explain this to me ?

Can you say:

Je suis allée à Paris ainsi que à Bordeaux. 

Are there different contexts where one can use "veut" instead of the "avoir envie de"?

For instance, why can't i say "je veut le chocolat"? When do i get to say "j'ai envie du chocolat"? 

I consulted Reverso for the translation of two propositions from this lesson:

1. Dinner will be served within an hour

2. Dinner will be served in an hour's time

Both produce the same french phrase: 

Le dîner sera servi dans une heure

My question: why Kwizbot showed error to my translation into English that read “Dinner will be served within an hour”

Hello, 

Can anyone suggest a best-practices methodology for using the site to improving in a systematic way?

Perforce of circumstances, I'm learning on my own, but hope to get off the B1-B2 plateau that I've settled on via my piecemeal learning.

FWIW, I spend ~15 hours per week studying French.

Thanks in advance,

D 

Hi everyone :)
I'd like to ask, does "baggy" means "large" in french ?

I doubt it.

Thank you 

Regarding this exercise: (https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/my-languages/french/exercises/overview/1966 "A French Lunch Menu") 

My answers "saumon avec riz et brocoli", and "poulet avec frites et petits pois" were marked as correct, when the final text gave "saumon avec DU riz et DES brocolis" and "poulet avec DES frites et DES petits pois", as the translations, respectively.  My question is, on a french menu, is it more common to keep the second/third/fourth, etc. partitive articles in a dish name, or to drop them?  

(Part of my confusion was that my responses were marked as correct, (with no alternate answers given), however the translation given at the end of the exercise differed from my own, as noted above).

Thanks in advance!

If you want to say "I think about my wife". ChatGPT suggests I say "Je pense à elle", instead of "Je lui pense".

It says "Je lui pense" can be grammaticaly correct but it's too formal, old or used in literary.

However, this lesson says nothing about this. Can anyone explain this?

I keep getting marked incorrect in my A0 quiz when asked to fill in the blank. Every time I will use one of these and it will say I should use the opposite. I don't understand why/when to use one variant over the other, especially when there is no indication of formality in the question. At this point I feel like I'm taking the quiz over and over due to this one mistake and just switching between the two but always incorrect.

Take "le Sacré Coeur" as an example, which variant should I use and why?

Qu'est-ce que c'est le Sacré Coeur?
Qu'est-ce que le Sacré Coeur?