French language Q&A Forum

Can you explain the difference?  When I looked up branch (of a river), my dictionary gave branchement.  This was not accepted in the context of this story. 

un pont ancien     .... d'une autre époque ......     n'est- ce pas?

un ancien pont        ... a former bridge ?????    selon mon livre de grammaire

Can somebody help me with the passé composé và imparfait in this dialogue, I've got confused because they interchanged a lot and I could not keep up with that

why not have a multiple choice after the reading exercise. that would make it much more useful and helpful in preparing for delf

A kwiz I took marked "seize heures moins vingt" as incorrect (correct answer "quinze heures quarante").Am I to understand that you can't use "moins" constructions for >12 hours at all? In this lesson you only mention "moins le quart" being wrong.

i was taught aimer to love a person /like a thing

adorer to love a thing

is this no longer considered correct?

Vais sounds an awful lot like veut to me.

On peut aussi dire "du pont Saint-Martin"?  Quand est-ce qu'on utilise "depuis" (from)? Ce sont des synonymes?

As "cousines" is plural, is there a reason for saying leur instead of leurs? 

Perhaps I have misunderstood the rule.