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Joseph K.C1Kwiziq community member

'En' other uses

When 'in' is used in other contexts, apart from physical locations, would 'en' be used?

E.g. En réalité - In reality

Je suis fort en langues vivantes - I am strong in Foreign Languages

En industrie du bâtiment - In the building industry

Ces médicaments sont en sirop - This medication is in (the form of) syrup

Paul est rentré en colère - Paul returned home in Anger

By the way, please correct if wrong, thank you

Asked 7 years ago

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Shivani S.C1Kwiziq community member

I think that it should be "Tu veux que Jeanne apprenne la vérité ?"

Asked 8 years ago

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Cheryl N.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

agreement of adjectives when two adjectives describe the same nounBonjour! I thought that if two adjectives were being used to describe the same noun, then you wrote these adjectives both in the masculine form, even if the noun is feminine, e.g. Elle a acheté une nouvelle robe blanc et noir. Yet, the correct answer in a quizz I did was "les canines blanches et pointres", not "blancs et pointres". Can someone please explain this? Cheryl.

Asked 8 years ago

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Steven N.C1Kwiziq community member

Why are the 's' in "cette fois-là" and the 't' in "cette nuit-là" pronounced?

Asked 7 years ago

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David S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

To go camping. In the writing challenge: "Camping in the woods":
The phrase "It was the first time she'd gone camping on her own,"is translated as any of:
1. "C'était la première fois qu'elle allait camper seule, "
2. "C'était la première fois qu'elle allait camper toute seule,"3. "C'était la première fois qu'elle allait faire du camping seule, "4. "C'était la première fois qu'elle allait faire du camping toute seule"Questions:
1. According to Kwiziq's "Vocabulaire - Le camping", "faire du camping" means "go camping" so using it with "aller" seems superfluous if not actually incorrect. Shouldn't translations 3 and 4 be more like "...faisait du camping..."?2. To translate "she'd gone camping" (i.e. "she had gone camping") differently from "she went camping" shouldn't the translation use the Plus-que-parfait - not the Imparfait? Why do all of the translations use the Imparfait?3. Why is "toute" used in translations 2 and 4? As I understand it "toute" is used for emphasis here but if the English phrase had wanted emphasis it could have used something like "all on her own" or "on her very own".

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Umi O.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Agreeing past participle with "on":

Asked 8 years ago

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William C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Definite Article or Possessive Pronoun not Required here?Translate That day, you kept uour word, Fill in the blnk. Cette jour-là, tu ............... parole. Conversational pat for verb tenir. Should answer not be Cette jour-là, tu AS TENU LA (TA) parole.

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Peter B.C1Kwiziq community member

Faulty question

Oscar à compter jusqu'à dix en français. (Oscar manages to count up to ten in French.)HINT: Conjugate "arriver" (to manage) in Le Présent

Should this be ("gerer" ----to manage)

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Peter C.C1Kwiziq community member

Why is it "Quand je SUIS sorti hier soir, il faisait très froid." The lesson says that we use AVOIR when the verb isn't followed by a preposition...

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Kathryn K.C1Kwiziq community member

Encore vs. à nouveau

Why must I transat 'as if I pas 21 again' as 'si j'avais à nouveau 21 ans' and not 'si j'avais encore 21 ans'?

Asked 4 years ago

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