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Ana P.C1Kwiziq community member

I think I read somewhere that one says "sur l'avenue". Is this right?

Asked 9 years ago

lucieeee z.A1Kwiziq community member

In negative sentences we only use de?I mean, if I want to express I don't have any pommes, is it "Je n'ai pas de pommes",or "des pommes"? That is to say, when there is a negative sentence, the only partitive article I need to use is de, is that right?

Asked 8 years ago

John M.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Question about "Il était une fois, un roi et une reine qui vivaient dans un château"

Is there a grammar lesson that explains the use and/or necessity of "qui" in this sentence?

Merci.

Asked 6 years ago

A. S.A2Kwiziq community member

Salut, je choisi " croient " et la réponse a été marqué comme pas vrai Pourquoi

Asked 8 years ago

Terri R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Writing Challenge Week 57, level A1. I'm learning to play the piano.The sentence is 'I am learning to play the piano.' The correct answer is "J'apprends à jouer du piano." Does the à go with the apprendre or with jouer? What is the link to the appropriate lesson? Thank you - I'm stumped! Terri

Asked 7 years ago

Almut H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Terminology of tensesI am not a native speaker of English and the terms I learnt for verb tenses in the past are "Present Perfect", "Past Tense" and "Past Perfect" (plus the continuous equivalents). Now you say "in English we use the Simple Past followed by the Imperfect" and I wonder what these verb forms are meant to be, especially since in your example "He played football when he was small" both verbs (to play and to be) seem to stand in the same tense, namely the one I was taught to call "Past Tense".

Asked 9 years ago

nim t.A1Kwiziq community member

differnce between -ant and -er/-ir/-re

Hi,

since using the -ant and the infinitive both mean -ing in english, what's the difference between them and when would you use one and not the other?

Asked 7 years ago

steven l.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Faire les magasins Can someone explain why it's faire DU shopping and faires LES magasins? Why is it not consistent and faire des magasins?

Asked 7 years ago

Maren W.C1Kwiziq community member

Les yeux vs mes yeux

In the sentence "my eyes are blue..." I wrote 'Les yeux sont bleus (I forgot to add the j'ai), but it was corrected to "Mes yeux sont bleus." I thought you did not use possessives with body parts?

Asked 5 years ago

Claudia D.B2Kwiziq community member

Please add that when using the verb être the Partitive doesn't change For example: Ce sont des poires. ----> Ce ne sont pas des poires.

Asked 8 years ago

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