French language Q&A Forum

In the exercise entitled "A Book Lover," there is a phrase "...rien qu'en observant ses grands frères et sœurs." When I entered that spelling, the s's at the ends of "frère-" and "sœur-" were marked as incorrect even though they were present in the correct example.

In passing, if Damien indeed only had one brother and one sister, would we have to say 'son frère et sa sœur'?

Thanks a lot.

Again the answers alternate--a few in French, but most in English, making it impossible to know how to correct my mustakes.

I tried and tested with some of the AI tools like chatgpt and gemini to confirm if the given long text is for A1 level but they both said it's above a2/b1 level due to vocabulary, synonyms and complex sentence structure. I tested becauase even i felt quite hard to grasp the meaning of most words and sentences.

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?

This is an awesome song but it really isnt french and really is Breton so i was wondering why it even is here

I'm a bit unclear about the use of plural pommes vs. singular pomme in the above examples. Could someone please clarify when to use plural vs. singular? Thank you!

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.  

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.

this does not seem right that in the lesson it is " she takes dance lessons".. i think it should be she dances.. and if you wanted to say someone is taking dance lessons it woudl be " Elle prend des cours de danse"