Not a greeat lesson on acquérir and other irregular -QUÉRIRNot a great lesson. This lesson is to Conjugate acquérir and other irregular -QUÉRIR verbs but it does not tell us how to pronounce acquérir or any of the other -QUÉRIR verbs (in their infinitive) form, which of course would be widely used.
As usual with so many lessons, much screen space is wasted with the bold ‘Learn how to conjugate blah blah…@ when blah blah is spelt out 5 CMs above. That’s pointless. As are the coloured lines, which should be used to show which elements of text relate to which other elements of text , i.e. which explanation pertains to which example but instead they are as good as random.
This lesson does at least give us the English translation of the verb in question which some do not.
So…. May I please suggest that you have the following as standards for setting out these ‘Quick lessons’.
1Don’t ever waste screen space (and us leaner’s time) with the bold ‘learn how to… Portion. When it has already been said above.
2. 2Always give the English translation of the word in question.... and any other examples
3. 3When teaching the specifics of any word please give us the pronunciation of that word.
4. 4When listing other verbs as examples of those, which conjugate the same etc., please give those pronunciations.
I hope you take this criticism in the positive way it is meant. I like KWIZIQ and would recommend it but your quick lessons do sometimes fail to hit the mark.
I was doing the quiz and there was 2 answers that were the same. I picked the first one and got it wrong because it was the second one. Can someone fix this?
In the sentence, ”I still do it nowadays from time to time.”, I used ”de nos jours” instead of ”aujourd'hui” and it was not accepted. Should it be included as a possibility?
This confused me: "- If the main verb is __NOT used with negations__, then you CANNOT use the ne explétif. - If the main verb is __used with a negation__, you can use the ne explétif, but it is considered optional"
I asked Claude (which is an AI and can make mistakes).
" The text has it backwards. The traditional rule is the opposite:
If the main clause is affirmative (no negation), the ne explétif is used (optionally, in formal/literary style).If the main clause is negative, the ne explétif is dropped, because adding it would create ambiguity or redundancy with the real negation.Examples:
Je sors sans qu'il ne le sache — main clause affirmative (je sors) → ne explétif is appropriate here.Je ne sors pas sans qu'il le sache — main clause already negative (je ne sors pas) → the ne explétif is omitted to avoid confusion."Is this a conflict between the two explanations, or am I (likely) just misunderstanding?
I don’t understand why it’s « Je vais __dans le______ Merseyside la semaine prochaine. »
Merseyside ends with an « e » so should be feminine and use « en. »
I would have expected devoir to be used here instead of avoir. Could someone clarify? Maybe I'm not understanding the tenses clearly. Thanks!
"Qu' aiment-ils?" is this What do they love? How do you say "Who do they love?" ?
1. Is there any word called 'reprimande' in French denoting the same sense as reprimand in English.
2. Le pire était à l'école où l'on m'envoyait dans le bureau du directeur. In this sentence means they?
3. This sentence is difficult for me to understand: je m'étais calmé avant qu'il ne soit trop tard !
The first part of the sentence is in the plus-que-parfait tense, while the second part is in the subjonctif present tense. Since the past perfect tense is always used to describe a past action that took place before another past action, shouldn't the subjonctif passé here be more appropriate? The English sentence itself illustrates this fact: ... had calmed down ... was
Thank you! Overall, a difficult but good exercise to think about the complex constructions of the sentences.
Can we say 'partout dans le monde' instead of 'le monde entier' to signify all over the world?
Not a great lesson. This lesson is to Conjugate acquérir and other irregular -QUÉRIR verbs but it does not tell us how to pronounce acquérir or any of the other -QUÉRIR verbs (in their infinitive) form, which of course would be widely used.
As usual with so many lessons, much screen space is wasted with the bold ‘Learn how to conjugate blah blah…@ when blah blah is spelt out 5 CMs above. That’s pointless. As are the coloured lines, which should be used to show which elements of text relate to which other elements of text , i.e. which explanation pertains to which example but instead they are as good as random.
This lesson does at least give us the English translation of the verb in question which some do not.
So…. May I please suggest that you have the following as standards for setting out these ‘Quick lessons’.
1Don’t ever waste screen space (and us leaner’s time) with the bold ‘learn how to… Portion. When it has already been said above.
2. 2Always give the English translation of the word in question.... and any other examples
3. 3When teaching the specifics of any word please give us the pronunciation of that word.
4. 4When listing other verbs as examples of those, which conjugate the same etc., please give those pronunciations.
I hope you take this criticism in the positive way it is meant. I like KWIZIQ and would recommend it but your quick lessons do sometimes fail to hit the mark.
In the following sentence, " C'est aussi de Bourgogne que viennent les fameux escargots de Bourgogne, préparés dans leur délicieux beurre à l'ail et au persil.", why do you use que and not qui? I always thought if you use que, you need to have a subject after it, but qui is the subject and is followed directly by the conjugated verb. However in this case, que seems to replace a 3rd person plural subject.
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