En Italien on utilise le mot au pluriel (les feux d'artifice) pour indiquer un spectacle pyrotechnique (en effet il y a plusiers feux...). Est-ce qu'il faut l'utiliser toujours au singulier en Francais? Merci beaucoup de votre reponse!

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Rene S.B2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Mini KwizzesIt seems that the mini kwizzes have disappeared. I can view a lesson, scroll down (using my smartphone or my laptop) but I simply can't see the kwizzes. Have they been removed?

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stephen w.C1KwizIQ community member

"Les vaches, dont les fermiers observent les bébés, se reposent dans le pré." Who is in the meadow?The cows, {including} or{ whose} the farmers watch the babies, rest in the meadow. Question "Who is in the meadow?" it could be 1. The cows. or 2. The babies. This is a questionable question.

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Chris W.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

"They bring their computers."The sentence, as it stands in the subject line, appears not to be unique in English. Apart from "ils amènent leurs ordinateurs." could it not also be translated as "ils amènent ses orinateurs"? The first one meaning that the computers belong collectively to the group whereas the second option connotes that each one of the group brings his own computer. Or is the second option plainly wrong in French?

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Stevie C.C1KwizIQ community member

"... calls to mind ..."The "Il rappelle son ex à Maria" construction is like the formal English "calls to mind". Here, "He calls to mind her ex to Maria". (That would be bad English, but it's how I remember the word order.)

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John B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

The meanings of demeurer

In your lesson you say that demeurer, when used in the perfect tense with avoir or être, behaves in the opposite way to other two meaning verbs. Is that right? Does it not behave in the same way, ie. it takes être when intransitive and avoir when transitive?

Sorry, perhaps this is not right. For example, il a demeuré à Paris is an example of intransitive avoir use.

So, is the rule that we use être when the usage is intransitive and expresses a state of being?

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