French language Q&A Forum

1. Is 'piquer' a valid verb in French? Can one say 'piquer l’intérêt'?

Thanks.

(Faire peur à = to scare [someone/something])

What are you trying to say? That you can use either one (auquel or a qui), there is no difference?

why we used huîtres fraîches instaed of huîtres frais?

I am puzzled that I received the mark of 0/60 for this exercise.  I made only two mistakes   on se rend and I omitted the brackets around amour et longue vie.

Très difficile. Mais c'est pour ça que je suis ici, pour apprendre le français.

Pour moi, entendre la phrase prononcée immédiatement après sa correction est un bon entraînement auditif parce que j’écris souvent erreurs à cause de ne pas comprendre les mots exacts prononcés. 

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.