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I'm working my way through grammar topics in my French course, and I'm finding it a little difficult to isolate which topics I haven't got a 100% score yet. When I go to the FRENCH GRAMMAR LESSONS library, is there a filter or something that shows you only those lessons which you haven't practiced and/or completed?
As an American, I'm noticing that using "wash" as a transitive verb is tripping me up a little. It sounds ungrammatical to me ear to use it transitively. I'm guessing this could be a difference between American and British English, maybe (if a British speaker says it sounds fine).
I can say, "I wash up every morning" or "I'm wash myself every morning," but "I wash every morning" doesn't say what I'm washing, so it sounds like an incomplete sentence.
Reading the Kwiziq lessons has been great. They're both thorough and concise, which is impressive. Thanks!
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 repeatedly fall foul over “docteur” vs “médecin(e)”, and became even more confused with the phrase “why do you want to see the doctor” when the call was made to see the dentist. So I’m thinking, should it be “want to see the doctor Bernard”. My understanding is “docteur” is the title, and “médicin(e)” is the profession, and in this case “le dentiste”. And then I’m tripped up by “teeth cleaning” when in practice you would probably say “a descale” but that didn’t come to mind at the time !
First up, this a lovely poem. Second, is there a context where I should use "magique" and a different condition under which I should use "sorciere"?
Hello there,
I just finished the test with everything but 2 sentences correct. However, because my keyboard is not french, it registered as every one of them wrong. I think there should be something done about that.
Why is your answer Je vais à piscine and not Jee vais à la piscine.
Salut,
Can I write apporter quelques changements in this context? I have read that although apporter is normally reserved for physical movement of objects, it can be used figuratively too.
Merci!
Why was I marked wrong on a quiz for including "quel est un pain au chocolat" in ways to say what is a pain au chocolat?
Bonjour,
Je viens de faire un exercise
Vos fleurs ________ de meilleurs jours.
Your flowers have known better days.
J'ai utilisé **ont connait** pour have known
Mais la réponse correcte a été **ont connu** (knew)
Vos fleurs ont connu de meilleurs jours" - You flowers **knew**better days?
Pourquoi on utilisé le PC ici? Plus que parfait pour **have known**
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