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Bruce C.A1Kwiziq community member

La Saint-Valentin VideoBonjour! I just watched the St. Valentine's video posted on the web site. Very funny! In the transcript below the video it says "elle cligne des yeux" and "je cligne des yeux". Shouldn't the article "les" be used instead? Listening to the video, I'm not sure if he says des or les. Merci!

Asked 8 years ago

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Loretta M.C1Kwiziq community member

Une questionC'est juste si je dis: Bien sûr qu'on se déteste, mais on s'aime aussi.

Asked 8 years ago

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Maria Z.A2Kwiziq community member

In the sentence " J' utilise ces tomates. Ce cont les dernières". Why can't we say "elles sont les dernières" since we talk about specific tomatoes?

Asked 7 years ago

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sue c.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

achievement pageI have a silver and a brone star in lessons that I can not find now to improve the star rating one for plural of adjectives and the other for durant or pendant . The second silver star- for the conjugasion of boire in the present I can find many thanks

Asked 8 years ago

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Hugh O.C1Kwiziq community member

Why not the present tense?

Hi there;

Can I spell out my difficulty with this?

The three sample sentences are (and I've re-ordered the clauses on one to make my point clear):

Depuis que j'ai quatre ans, je porte des lunettes.

Depuis que vous nous l'avez dit, nous le savons.

Depuis que je t'ai rencontré, ma vie a complètement changé.

In the first two examples, the second clause of each is in the present tense; why not in the third example?

Best wishes,

Hugh

Asked 6 years ago

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Steven N.C1Kwiziq community member

pronoun yIl faut que j'y aille is translated as "I must go" but shouldn't it be "I must go there" - or is the "there" implied?

Asked 7 years ago

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Judy C.B2Kwiziq community member

Why à la tomate and similaire

Asked 8 years ago

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c. c.C1Kwiziq community member

I'm just gonna leave this here

I won't again write "jeudi suivant" in quiz answers but I hear it a lot when making plans, so I'm putting this here :-)

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/jour-de-la-semaine-prochain-suivant-qui-vient-de-la-semaine-prochaine-dapr%C3%A8s-en-huit.377114/

Asked 6 years ago

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Michael S.A2Kwiziq community member

why is the subjunctive not used in the example - Les fleurs que Paul sent?

Asked 7 years ago

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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.

Asked 4 years ago

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