French language Q&A Forum

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?

I keep seeing "s'est" and such, but I don't know why it's used. I can't understand the meaning behind it, and I also see "s'est terminé" when terminer isn't a verb that uses etre when conjugated into passé composé.

I think there is a small mistake in the English text. Instead of 'The manager has just confirmed me that...' it has 'The manager had just confirmed me that...'

I don’t understand the purpose of “t” here as the verb is not reflexive. All these are equivalent but I’m at a loss of the use of “t-on” . What lesson would help with this?

how do you ask.  Who do they love?  Qu'aiment-ils  is WHAT do they love?  but how would you ask WHO di they love?

For indicating "a relationship soured", can we use s'aigrir or aigrir as verbs?

I have a few questions relating to the B2 writing exercise "What Monster Would You Be" (which was great, BTW!):

without any memory of what I had done the night before.

Kwizbot's answer:

sans aucun souvenir de ce que j'aurais fait la nuit d'avant.

Your answer:

sans aucun souvenir de ce que j'avais fait la nuit d'avant

Question #1: Why is it the conditional perfect here and not the past perfect?  The English says I had.  Isn't that past perfect?  

before reverting to normal the next morning,

Kwizbot's answer:

avant de redevenir normal le matin suivant,

Your answer:

avant que je ne redevienne normal le matin suivant,

Question #2: Why is my response here incorrect?  Why do I need to use avant + infinitive instead of avant que + subjunctive? Is there a subtle difference in meaning?

I would know many magic spells

Kwizbot's answer:

Je connaitrais de nombreux sorts

Your answer:

Je connaîtrais beaucoup de sorts

Question#3: Why can't you use "beaucoup de" here?  Is there a subtle difference in meaning between beacoup and nombreux?  For example, does beaucoup mean "a lot" and nombreux "many"?

Merci d'avance de votre aide!  

PS - I LOVE the writing challenges and find them the most helpful part of your app!  I would LOVE it if the NEXT button were right under the self-rating system so I wouldn't have to scroll down over the grammar lessons links to get to it.  

Please can someone explain why is this sentence in the passé composé instead of the imparfait ?