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M. S.C1KwizIQ community member

Singular or plural?I thought that 'family' implied plural for the answer - where did I go wrong please? Extract below:Pour Thanksgiving, ma famille ________ un délicieux repas.For Thanksgiving, my family used to share a delicious meal.HINT: Conjugate 'partager' (to share) in l'Imparfaitpartageaitpartageaient

Asked 6 years ago

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Susan C.C1KwizIQ community member

numbers

Asked 9 years ago

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N. M.B2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Significance of description of passe composeIs there any significance in the website's use of "passe compose" in some cases and "Le Passe Compose (conversational past)" in other cases?

Asked 8 years ago

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Walter B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Vous avez pu recontrer Sting?You give two translations: "You were able to meet Sting." "You could meet Sting." Shouldn't the second one read, "You could have met Sting."? I believe "You could meet Sting" is in the present conditional tense. Unless I have my tenses all mixed up ...

Asked 7 years ago

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Stephanie S.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

dans la maison

In the exercise I am doing, I translated "we would have gone to her house" as "nous serions allés à sa maison", but the correct answer was "nous serions allés dans sa maison". Is there a difference in French between going to the location of someone's home and actually going inside, or are they both "dans"?

Asked 5 years ago

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Deborah K.B2KwizIQ community member

Passe compose for a reflexive verb.The answer to a question in the Kwiz was "Nous nous sommes brosse" (with an accent). Shouldn't that have been brosses (with an accent)?

Asked 8 years ago

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N. Hilary (Shamrockhill) W.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

a few questions

It's been some time since I lived in France, but at that time a restaurant menu was called "une carte". Has the usage changed that much that "la carte" only refers to "un menu a la carte" these days?

Also - just want to point out that some of the sections are missing the oral reading link.

Otherwise, a fun exercise and I learned a new word - "une couette"!

Merci

Asked 4 years ago

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