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B. R.A1Kwiziq community member

Je voudrais une pizza(sentence from one of the tests)

Why in this sentence for pizza is not used partitive article de la (some pizza). Thanks

Asked 2 years ago

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S. B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Rien que d'y penser

Lots of interesting idioms in this exercise like - "rien que d'y penser" and "sans que j'y puisse quoi que ce soit".

I'm trying to break down "rien que d'y penser" into English. Rien que = nothing that or nothing but. De = I'm just starting to recognize that "de" often comes after "que" in certain phrases (Je dors plutot que de travailler). Y penser = to think about it.

I still don't see how sans que j'y puisse means I can't or I am not able. What does "y" refer to?

Asked 5 years ago

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Peter B.C1Kwiziq community member

Use of the cedillaWith Vivre: I see --------- Ils ont vécu With décevoir I see -------- nous avons déçu I wonder why the cedilla with one but not the other

Asked 8 years ago

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

c'est vs il estIn a writing challenge we had someone describing the new TV they bought: "besides, it's high definition" -> "en plus, elle est haute définition". I'm have from mastered the rules for c'est vs il est, but the one thing I have learned is that when you have a modified noun it's supposed to be "c'est". Yet here we have "haute définition" preceeded by elle est. My best guess is that "haute définition" is to be seen as an expression and should therefore count as an adjective rather than a modified noun ?

Asked 9 years ago

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helen w.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

About it - "y"?

She'd been dreaming about it forever.

The correct answer was "Elle en rêvait depuis toujours." Why wouldn't this be "Elle y rêvait depuis toujours?

Wouldn't the words "about it"require "y"and "of it" - en?

Asked 7 years ago

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J H.C1Kwiziq community member

It asked two questions, I got both correct. Why does this say I'm at 41%?

Asked 8 years ago

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eric d.C1Kwiziq community member

Shouldn't appeller be in the future tense?Surely "I'll call you before leaving." requires appeller to be in the future tense as the sentence means, "I will call you before leaving". I hope you can help, thanks.

Asked 7 years ago

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Arman V.C1Kwiziq community member

No micro quiz?Hi, I can't seem to find the micro-quiz to any of these lessons? It's been like this for a week or so now.

Asked 8 years ago

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Michael H.A0Kwiziq community member

how to say your name.

Hi there Aurellie, I am just a bit confused about some aspects of this website. I love the way Laura teaches, but this is just really a bit of feedback which you have asked for in the past: I have lived in French speaking Switzerland for fifteen winter seasons...teaching in French, have done a primary school teacher qualification specialising in French and have passed some quite advanced grammer levels within this website system, yet it still baffles me by directing me from time time to quite a low level...for instance, how to say your name...? I can't see that I can have possibly got only 33% in this at any point...is it some kind of tactic of the website it wonder...? or just some kind of shortcoming...? ah well, just thought I'd mention it for feedback in case of the latter.

Best regards,

Michael

Asked 6 years ago

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