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Mia M.A1Kwiziq community member
alors vs donc

What is the difference between the two? I tried to use donc il pose des questions but the answer was alors. 

Asked 5 years ago
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White L.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Il faut que j’aille aux toilettes ! Just curious.  Would a french person use Il faut que j’aille aux toilettes.  or J’ai besoin d'aller aux toilettes.  Using il faut que seems a little strange to this Anglo. ;-)
Asked 6 years ago
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Arndis K.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
"Will do" and "going to do" I am neither a native English nor French speaker, but quite fluent in English still. I don't understand the difference made in the quiz between "After lunch, the girls will do their homework" and "After lunch, the girls are going to do their homework" as these have exactly the same meaning in English, as far as I know. 
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Sue M.C1Kwiziq community member
Is « I smell sweat » and « I smell of sweat » both «  Je sens de transpiration »?
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Maarten K.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
Après-midi can be either masculine or feminine

As « après-midi » can be either masculine or feminine, both « cet après-midi » and « cette après-midi » should be considered as correct answers in this exercise, but are not. 

The Académie-Française notes preference for use of the masculine, but still accepts both as correct. It would be reasonable to advise « cet après-midi » as the best choice, with « cette après-midi » as an acceptable alternative

https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9A2293

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Kay Y.A2Kwiziq community member
How to say "This is correct/ right"?

I found this lesson very helpful! 

By the way, what would be the correct way to say "This is correct/ right"?

Merci beaucoup à l'avance.

Asked 6 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"?

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John L.C1Kwiziq community member
why autant que when "chante" is a verb?Why is "autant que" use with the verb action of "chante," when "aussi que" is used with the verb action of "nage" in a different example?  Both are verbs.
Asked 7 years ago
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Stewart H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Examples showing agreement without an object pronoun.

In the Weekend Challenge: 'My plan for the day of the exam' one of the translations required is 'that I'll have chosen the day before'. 

The answes given are: 

'que j'aurai choisiS la veille'  OR 'que j'aurai sélectionnéS la veille'

There is no object pronoun in either of these answers, so why are the past participles 'choisi' and 'sélectionné' writen with an S added for agreement?

Thank you

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Thalia C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Quelqu'un peut-il m'aider...?

"Can anybody help me?" I'm curious about why this inversion needs "il" after "peut"?  Is the non-inverted question form: Est-ce que quelqu'un peut m'aider?

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