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Marathuduwa gamage M.A0KwizIQ community member

How to change je suis to j

Asked 8 years ago

Marna Marie' S.A0KwizIQ community member

Bonjour! J'habite Afrique du Sud

Asked 9 years ago

Ian L.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Imperfect vs. conditional

"le propriétaire m'a dit que vous étiez mon fournisseur d'électricité".

Can you explain the use of the imperfect tense in this context?

I chose "vous seriez"rather than 'vous étiez". I interpreted "were" as conditional (ie, as "you would be") rather than literally "you were". I thought that Bruno was not already a client of the electricity provider. Is this acceptable?

Asked 6 years ago

Estefanía C.C1KwizIQ community member

"je lui ai montré"? porquoi pas "je lui ai montrée"?

Asked 7 years ago

Stephen L.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Can you please spell out the difference between using que/qui and ce qui/ce que

Asked 9 years ago

Susan R.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

What are the rules as to when to use, "à," "de," or nothing?

Asked 10 years ago

Marnie C.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Aigü and aigüeThe example uses masculine and feminine endings but in your "instruction" there is no mention feminine v s masculine...only the NOT derived from verbs... become -üe in the written form, but are pronounced in exactly the same way as the masculine form." Could you clarify this?

Asked 8 years ago

Dzoan L.B1KwizIQ community member

m'endormeMa mère me berçait dans ses bras jusqu'à ce que je m'endorme. This sentence confuses me. What tense is m'endorme? Is that present tense? Why is it present tense here? Shouldn't it be l'imparfait as well? Merci.

Asked 9 years ago

Andrea N.B2KwizIQ community member

Quatre-vingt or quatre-vingtS

According to Cecile's response and Lawless French there should be an 'S' with quatre-vingts. If so, this lesson may need a tweak!

Asked 6 years ago

John W.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

.....in case it's sunnyThe answer given is '....au cas où il fesait beau'. Couldn't you say as an alternative '....au cas où il y aurait du soleil'?

Asked 8 years ago

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