French language Q&A Forum

I have quizzed this question 3 times. The first time I chose 'sa'.  I was given 'son' as correct. The next time I chose 'son'. I was given 'sa' as correct. The 3rd time I wrote 'sa' but apparently should have written 'son'. What's going on here?

Could someone clarify why imperfect is used in the above example? I thought it would be future (je viendra). The linked lesson is "Expressing continuing action with the imperfect tense in French" but this does not seem like a continuing action? And the rest of the sentence is in future tense as well. 

Thanks in advance! 

I’ve no idea what a determinant or partitive article is - could you please extend the list of examples beyond ‘un/une/le/la...’ as this topic is really confusing. 

in the other avoir+verb lessons, it says that the verb does not need to agree with the subject's gender and number. Is that the case here too?

Why does it keep switching between passé composé and imparfait?

e,g, Il portait un costume, but il s'est très bien comporté.

Elle devait lire un poème, then quand j'ai fini de lire

How would one differentiate between "He hates the coffee shop" and "he hates the coffee" ?  They Both seem to be "il déteste le café". Would you use "les cafes" for all of them and "c'est cafe" for a specific one?

Hi can l’imparfait be used to describe both an ongoing action in the past and a completed action in the past?  For eg. why is Je lisais tous les jours, I study every day and  Je alles is marche, I was going to the market?

Hello!

I noticed when reading the english version of the text that the past tense was a bit strange. I would only ever use 'had had...' if I was setting the scene for something that happened next. For example here it would be much more natural to say 'We visited all the main Parisian monuments', not 'we had visited'. Even if it was 20 years ago, I would still say that, unless there was another part to the sentence, eg. 'we had visited all the main Parisian monuments, but then we realised that xyz'. 

I'm guessing the construction here is just to help with knowing what the construction should be in french, so I'm wondering if there's a lesson somewhere about when to use passé simple vs plus-que-parfait? I previously thought I would use plus-que-parfait when I would say in english eg. 'we had gone', and passé simple if I would say 'we went', but it seems like the situations when we would actually use those constructions might be different...

Thanks!

Kat =)

From my understanding, french does not put two vowel together and will use "j'", "d'", "l'", etc. if there is a vowel as the first letter. I also know that "h" is silent and also uses "j'","d'","l'". etc. 

I would like to know why and if there other letters that follow this rule. Thank you very much in advance.

 I expected the answer to be ...de 1789 au 1799 (having read the lesson notes). 

I don't understand why the answer came back as de...à, it is after all between two dates.

Any thoughts on how to make this clearer to understand?