French language Q&A Forum

Why is the subjunctive used after "C'est une bonne chose qu" but  the indicative is use after "Heureusement que".....  both seem to be an expression of preference which normally has the subjunctive following??

Regarding the section "Case of 'à la maison' vs. 'chez moi' ": Would it be correct to use "à la maison" to refer to second and third person subjects when returning to their own homes, e.g. "Elle rentre à la maison" for "She is going back home", or "Tu rentres à la maison" for "You are going back home", etc.?

(The example given for "à la maison" used the first person (je) only and the next section describes subjects going to other people's homes, and not their own). 

Merci en avance! 

Why does magnifique come after the noun in "J'ai vu des endroits magnifiques." but before the noun in "Tu as acheté de magnifiques vêtements."

If this is the beauty, age, goodness, size rule, wouldn't magnifique be classified as beauty or goodness for both? It must be a different rule I've forgotten about!

Despite studying some references given to me by Maarten, I still erred in choosing the wrong past tense for the translation of "Hi Charlotte, have you been following the Cannes Festival this year?".  I interpreted 'has been following' (past progressive, I think, in English) as a continuing action throughout the year, hence imperfect tense.  If you had said " Did you follow the Cannes Festival this year", I think I would have chosen passé composé.   Still a bit confused.

Hello!  Why is bain plural here with an s?  I would expect there would only be one bathroom to each hotel room.

Both of the above are listed in the lesson but I was marked incorrect using aucune d'entre elles in q lesson referring to les gosses, none of them....please advise. Thank you!

If you want to say "I think about my wife". ChatGPT suggests I say "Je pense à elle", instead of "Je lui pense".

It says "Je lui pense" can be grammaticaly correct but it's too formal, old or used in literary.

However, this lesson says nothing about this. Can anyone explain this?

You say:

The pattern to spot is that we use "ce qui" when the next word is a verb or an object or reflexive pronoun.

In my opinion, it would be better to say

“Ce qui” is always used when the next word is a verb or reflexive pronoun.

Including “or an object” is confusing and irrelevant.

My questions are about the sentence, "Et puis, une mère n'est pas uniquement celle qui t'a donné la vie.": Why is 'te' used here instead of 's'a', 'l'a' or some other construction, since it seems to be some kind of generalisation? And also, if 't'a' is used and the speaker is talking to another woman, why doesn't 'donné' agree in 'donnée'?