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Stephanie S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
why j'y crois?

In "Personne ne croit en toi comme j'y crois", why "y" if y is standing for "en toi?" I thought y was for prepositional phrases beginning with à

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harris d.C1Kwiziq community member
I speak of herI'm confused why "I speak of her" is "Je parle d'elle" as my first instinct would be to say "je l'en parle". What am I missing here? Thanks.
Asked 8 years ago
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A. W.C1Kwiziq community member
se balader vs se promener
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c f.C1Kwiziq community member
when to use égal vs égale ?

The examples provided in this lesson show the following:  

deux plus deux égal quatre Deux plus deux égale quatre.

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Ian L.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
How does one say "He has a bad knee" in French?ie, a chronically bad knee, as opposed to one that it is in pain right now?
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AurélieKwiziq Head of French, Native French Teacher
Tatiana asked: "Should not [La moitié de baguette] work as well as [Une demi-baguette]? ___ baguette, s'il-vous-plaît ! (Half a baguette, please !)
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Jim D.C1Kwiziq community member
surely fatiqué is conjugated with avoir and not être. Yet the answer to the question I have posted below uses soyez and not avoir2Je vais vous ramener chez vous avant select ...que vous n'êtesque vous ne soyezvous êtesvous soyezselect ... trop fatigués. (I'm going to bring you home before you're too tired.)
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Cheryl N.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Telling the time in FrenchBonjour! If you use the 12 hour clock, instead of 24 hour, to say the time in French, do you always use "demie" for half past the hour, even if the time is after mid-day? For example, in the weekend writing challenge: Level A2: "This weekend, I became an aunty!", I got this line wrong: (below, is copied from the writing challenge page:) You wrote: vers dix heures trente du soir. Correct answers: vers vingt-deux heures trente. or vers dix heures et demie (du soir). I understood from kwiziq lessons, that if the time was after mid-day, then you wrote trente instead of demie, and if you used the 12 hour clock, you needed to state if the time was morning or evening (which I did). Please clarify? Cheryl
Asked 9 years ago
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Carol W.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
qu'est ce qui te manque

is translated as what are you missing. i understand that if it is qu'est ce qui then what is the subject of yhe sentence, but dont understand how it gets to be what are you missing. i have looked at lesson on manquer and just getting further confused. there is a question here that is similay but i dont understand sorry

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Jennifer C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
DevaitI have an extract from a book i am reading. In this extract does devait mean must have. Can you explain Lorsqu’il a su que c’est au tabagisme ininterrompu de sa mère que Camille devait le handicap de sa petite taille, Armand a été troublé.
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