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shirqille t.B2Kwiziq community member

Merci a, Merci de, Merci pour

I have never seen "merci pour". From my knowledge, merci or remerci is followed by "de". Please provide further explanation on this topic or Is there a lesson on this within Kwizqi?

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Craig B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

transcript error?

Could this be a mistake in the transcript? ...qui tienne dans une cabin d'avion

should be: ...qu'il tienne dans une cabin d'avion

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Danielle A.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Round numbers only?

Does this convention only work when talking about full thousands/millions/billions? What if you want to say 12,505 things or 1,350,000 things?

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John M.C1Kwiziq community member

Use of duquelLe garçon à côté de qui tu es assise a de beaux yeux.The boy (whom) you're sitting next to has beautiful eyes.Why in the above sentene is tu es assise used and not tu assieds?

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Ruth M.A1Kwiziq community member

You said that que cannot be before the verbJe ne suis qu'allé au cinéma - in this example it is

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Sydney B.B2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

In lesson for 'ne explitif'"Évitons que la situation ne dégénère !Let's avoid the situation getting worse!" appears. Instead of 'avoid' wouldn't 'prevent be better, or is avoid maybe used in Britain to an extent?-- I'm American, and the latter sounds more natural to me.

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David M.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

"Cette fille est belle" mais "Cette école est bien"

Is there a lesson which covers this case of using an adverb "bien" instead of an adjective "bonne" ?

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shirqille t.B2Kwiziq community member

"En tant que"

J'ai besoin de supplementaire information sur l'usage de "en tant que". Remercie de votre assistance.

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James W.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Quand on fait de longues gardes fatigantes

Why is there a "DE" here? Is the expression "fait de qch"?

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Peter O.C1Kwiziq community member

41 Hyphen check?

Is the hyphen with 41 correct here? On the page Expressing numbers 70 to 999 in French it says no hyphen for 41?

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