French language Q&A Forum

Why is it téléphoné and not téléphonée? 

are these both translation not correct for the "Marc, lève la tête"

Marc, lift your head.
Marc lifts his head.

Thanks for reply.

Hello,

When saying "your name is..." "vous vous appelez..." why do we use "vous" twice?

Thank you!

Why is it in passé composé : 

Tu n'as pas eu froid ? 

and not imparfait : 

Tu n'avait pas froid ?

This came up in the examples of the use of stress pronouns: Ma femme et toi êtes meilleures amies.  But why is it 'êtes' and not 'sont'?

Hi! This is not a question regarding grammar but more of a cultural question. In many languages, the changes of the social understanding of gender has also changed the way we use grammar. In English, we don't use gendered adjectives, but it's common now to use gender neutral pronouns such as they/them, in Spanish we use the letter -e instead of -o or -a to make adjectives gender neutral. Is there anything similar in french? 

Use of "des" in  "Vous êtes les parents heureux" is not understandable, can we use "les" in place of "des"? if not why?

regards,

rahul

I suppose the real question is does it really matter if you get é or è right. Like, does this actually get use correctly or in a way that most french people would even notice.