French language Q&A Forum

Why are dashes included in transcriptions and why does Kwizbot detect the omission as being incorrect ? For example: I wrote "Et moi, je m'appelle Amina et je suis algérienne". Kwizbot detected my sentence as incorrect because it was missing the preceding dash: "- Et moi, ....". Of course, I gave myself 5 stars, but it's quite annoying to not receive a match in these cases. I hope this question makes sense.

First of all, is it "Vas-tu retourner à faire tes devoirs" or "Vas-tu retourner faire tes devoirs".

 Then, can respond with "Oui, j'y retourne."

The exercise uses « Mon parfum « 

Is parfum in this context « Flavor »? Is it appropriate to use the word saveur?

Hunting through the comments, it appears there was a change mentioned 11 months ago, but Joseph's answer was not actually included and I wonder if the general grammar rule may have been deleted when the exception about Indicatif was added?

Celine's answer to John 3 years ago has some explanation of present tense vs. passé composé, but there is nothing like this in the actual lesson itself.

I stopped reading halfway through the many comments as it appears many other users have also previously felt the lesson did not have an adequate explanation...

why say elle va au marché? instead of elle marche

Hi,

In the above examples, the je/tu/il/elle/on conjugations sometimes use plaî--- and sometimes use plai---. Is this an oversight or is it intentional?

Thank you.

In one of the dictées, I ran into the expression "d'autant que je me souvienne"...par exemple, je n'aime pas les aliments sucrés d'autant que je me souvienne." I haven't liked sweet foods for as long as I can remember (or maybe more literally "for as much as I remember."  Why is "de" used before avant que?  Does that kind of replace "for" in English?  And why does it take the subjunctive?  I'm guessing that perhaps it takes the subjunctive because memory is fallible and perhaps there's an element of doubt?  Perhaps one is not remembering correctly?

Bonjour!

Can we say: 'Julie est arrive en retard tous les jours'? 

So, _____ + je = nous. If we are part of the group or speaking informally, could we use 'on' with the he/she/it conjugation instead?

I don't seem to be able to find anything on this topic, although it is quite fundamental and also allows one to practice lots of tenses as one switches between direct and indirect speech.  Any chance of this topic appearing?