French language Q&A Forum

Why is the conditional called 'present' when the stem is the same as the future tense

Peux-je remplacer  "veuillons, veuille, veuillez" avec "Voulons, veux, voulez"à l'impératif?

Why in this sentence are we using past perfect in one part and subjunctive present in the other? For temporal coherence, shouldn't we use the subjunctive past in the second part? 

Also, can we use 'reprimande' in French, instead of remarques, for reprimand in English?

Why was it necessary to use the 'passe compose' of falloir here? 

Referring to: j'ai semé de nouvelles graines que j'ai recouvertes de compost 

Someone once shared a list of French verbs (probably from the lawless French) which take the preposition 'de' to denote "to do something with/by another thing", where intuitively one would want to use 'avec'. For example: 'La ville est entourée de collines.' Here, the natural translation is 'The city is surrounded by hills. Along the same line: 'Le jardin est recouvert de neige.' --> The garden is covered with snow!

Can anyone please share that list here also?

It seems to me in spoken French you can say "Personne ne s'interesse" (or maybe "personne s'interesse") but apparently that's incorrect and, when a group is mentioned beforehand, you have to say "Aucun(e)"?  If that is so, why is that?

pourquoi on dit

Je me suis fait faire les ongles la semaine dernière.I had my nails done last week.

Mais  pour "I had my hair brushed."

On dit "Je me suis fait brosser les cheveux," et pas "Je me suis fait faire brosser les cheveux." ?  merci

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On the lesson it says "In English, we drop the when talking about things in general"

However, on the mini quiz when asked what this means in English, it keeps the the

1. Elle n'aime pas les chats

Correct answer: She doesn't like the cats.

2. Il aime le fromage

Correct answer: He loves the cheese.