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Jan W.B1KwizIQ community member

Is there another correct way to translate this sentence?

Personne n'a ses clés ?
Does nobody have their keys ?

"Does nobody have their keys?" strikes me as something that would rarely if ever be said in (American) English. Is there another correct way to translate this? Because this one will be really hard for me to remember because it seems so very strange.

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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S. B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Jusqu'à versus à"They carried food to their burrow." I understand "jusqu'à" to mean "to" when I read it or hear it spoken, but how do we know to use "jusqu'à" instead of "à" to mean "to" when writing?

Asked 6 years ago

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Jonathan G.B2KwizIQ community member

J'ai encore des cadeaux à acheter

Shouldn't this be:

Marie "EN" a déjà tous achetés.

Since the article here is "des" and not "les"... We just know there are "some" presents to buy, not any specific ones.

Asked 8 years ago

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David K.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

I see no difference between "he only ate sweets" and "he ate sweets only". I have only encountered " que" after the past participle before the object

Asked 8 years ago

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Ann G.C1KwizIQ community member

I have been taught that parler à someone is an exception on word order and it is correct to say Je parle à lui. This is stated as incorrect in yours

Asked 7 years ago

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Melvin P.A2KwizIQ community member

Bonjour, Aurélie. I have a question. Why is it "tu as minci depuis l'année dernière" and not "tu mincis.."? In another lesson, it says that when using depuis the must be in the present tense. Merci beaucoup pour vos leçons. ^^

Asked 9 years ago

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A. M.B2KwizIQ community member

Punctuation in Ecriture.

I am making a lot of incorrect punctuation choices. It seems that there are significant differences in punctuation conventions between English and French. Do you address these?

Asked 5 years ago

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Maxine C.A1KwizIQ community member

Is there a Alexa lesson on à au de du I just can't get this one

Asked 8 years ago

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Siner B.A2KwizIQ community member

I mean for pluriels .; they ,we ,you

Asked 8 years ago

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