French language Q&A Forum

Hi teachers/fellow learners, for the last sentence "où Le Débarquement a eu lieu en 1944" I was under the impression that for known facts we use present tense in French, but it turns out that passé composé is more suitable. Can you tell me more about this? Thank you so much.

The bolding/unbolding doesn't always make this very clear.  So, please can someone clarify the rule on thousands in French?

You should not be grading us on punctuations. This is ridiculous.

In this Kwiz, you state that I did not answer two questions, no 7 and no 8.

But I have a screenshot of my answers, showing that I DID answer them and had both correct.

This seems a bit unfair. I really got 8/10.

The other question I have is about question 1 (time duration). I got "Phileas Fogg avait un jour d'avance." right, using "avoir".

You state that your answer of "Phileas Fogg était en avance d'un jour" (using "être" is correct, but in the lesson, it says that the correct cuse of "étre" is: Phileas Fogg était un jour en avance. 

So, I think that your "étre" construction is wrong.

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William Humphreys 

 nous sommes brossé is incorrect, should be nous sommes brossés

It is very helpful to have a list of specific french words or phases that will feature in the following text.  However, it would be even more helpful if these words and phases were also spoken in advance so that one can tune into them when they arise in the piece.   

Please explain why in this exercise the present subjunctive is used rather than the perfect subjunctive in the sentence 'Il a fallu qu'elle reste suspendue dans les airs plusieurs heures avant que les secours ne réussissent à la secourir.'  

Selon un etude....parleraient ,  je le comprends

Mais why does it say , un peu plus tard Dan  cette phrase, "la meme etude....'a' le plus grandre nombre."  Il ne devrait pas plutot dire "ait" or est ce car le phrase dit "a decouvert"  donc it is certain so not conditionnel

For the phrase "we divided", would "nous avons separe" be acceptable?

How do I access the accents for French writing within Quizik?

I can't seem to make the accents work when I'm using the site.