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Michael R.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor
Plural OragesBonjour RON. I referenced this lesson because I was looking for an answer for the text in the Week 78 B1 writing challenge 'Weather Forcast" 'after a rough night which will likely be punctuated by thunderstorms' = après une nuit agitée qui devrait être ponctuée d’orages,'. I thought it might be from the ponctuée but I think its followed by par not de, I don't see any adjectives or negative sentences.
Asked 8 years ago
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Martin R.B1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor
salle de bains

I was wondering why with the sentence "une salle de bains avec une baignoire", that "bains" is plural. Is it always plural even if there is just the one bathroom ?

Merci

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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Sherry M.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor
Aimer bien and negation

Just a few days ago I came across Jacques Brel's song "Le moribund", which has the line: "Adieu l'Antoine, je t'aimais pas bien", which I took to mean that the speaker didn't like Antoine. Is the rule that "aimer bien" can't be used in a negative sentence something that can be overridden in some cases, such as in art to make a line scan better, or does its use in the song suggest that the speaker isn't well spoken? Maybe an exception that tests the rule?

Asked 7 years ago
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Cheryl K.C1KwizIQ community member
pas du tout word order questionWhy, when I wrote "Elle n'est pas du tout stupide" was it marked wrong, when in the explanation, it is listed as one of two correct translations of "She's not at all stupid/She's not stupid at all"?
Asked 8 years ago
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Steven F.C1KwizIQ community member
une fois deux / un multiplié par deuxHow do you know when to use un rather than une of vice versa? 
Asked 7 years ago
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Donovan J.B2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor
I really disagree with the choices on this question...The question was «Oui, je le crois» CANNOT mean...
Yes, I think soYes, I believe soYes, I believe himYes, I believe      <- the given answer

I can't speak for how English is used everywhere in the world, but at least where I'm standing, there is absolutely no difference between "I believe", "I believe so", and "I think so." They mean exactly the same thing. The choice that is the most different (by a tiny margin) is "I believe him."
I'm guessing that the idea you were going for is that if I'm believing "him", I'm not believing "in him", but I'm believing an idea that he has previously presented...  but you didn't show any examples of that type of usage in the lesson. So given my choices, it looks like "le" is replacing a person in that choice.
My other questioin, of course, was a very similar question with similarly confusing answers.
«Il ne le croit pas» CANNOT mean...
There are often times on this site when, as far as I'm concerned, two choices are equally correct in English, but I can usually tell from the context which one you WANT me to pick, based on what the topic is. But these particular questions are a bit odd to me because leaving off the word "so" makes no difference at all.
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Beth B.A1KwizIQ community member
Améliorer or S'améliorer

Is it better to say "améliorer" or "s'améliorer" as in "je peux améliorer" or "je peux s'améliorer".

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Valentin P.B2KwizIQ community member
sûrement, probably or certainly

in the exercise there's a word  used "sûrement" as "probably", 

however here it says it means "certainly":

http://dictionnaire.sensagent.leparisien.fr/SUREMENT/fr-fr/

and here seems to be meaning both:

https://context.reverso.net/translation/french-english/s%C3%BBrement?utm_source=reversoweb&utm_medium=contextresults&utm_campaign=resultpage

Asked 6 years ago
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Jim M.A1KwizIQ community member
Can't get the pronunciations to repeat.
Asked 8 years ago
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