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Andrew F.C1Kwiziq community member

3rd person plural possessive for a plural nounThere was a question on a recent quiz as follows: "Il faut qu'ils obtiennent leur permis de conduire," with English translation something like "They have to get their driving license." The quiz question was about the subjunctive of obtenir (which I got right), but I am just wondering about the use of leur rather than leurs. Translated strictly, I suppose leur is correct, but in both English and French I would have thought "their driving licenses = leurs permis de conduire" would be more accurate, since they each need to have their own license, not a single license among them? Thank you very much in advance. Kind regards.

Asked 8 years ago

Minhaz I.A0Kwiziq community member

À rire or de rire

Bonjour à tous, je m'appelle minhaz.

I have started learning french which makes me a basic beginner in this language.

I have a question related to a sentence which is "it is good to laugh sometimes".

In french it is written as "C'est bon de rire parfois".

As I know that "to" is said as "à" in French.

My question is why it is not written as

C'est bon à rire parfois

Asked 3 years ago

m. b.A2Kwiziq community member

what happened to the microquizzes? I found them really helpful before. thanks!

Asked 8 years ago

AurélieKwiziq Head of French, Native French Teacher

N. asked: "Why "on me permet" becomes "they allow..." rather than "we allow" or "one allows"."

"On me permet d’utiliser l’ordinateur." (They allow me to use the computer.)

Asked 9 years ago

William C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Abbreviation for heure and spelling rules

Are there rules about when to use the abbreviation for heure? For example, huit heure or 8h or huit h. Also, when typing 8h is there a space between the number and the abbreviation or no space (8h or 8 h)?

Asked 5 years ago

Nicole W.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

About the adjective "meilleure"...

I thought "meilleure" meant "best" rather than "better," which is the meaning it's given in the chart. In the sample sentence "Le meilleur élève..." is said to mean "The best pupil..." So again, why in the chart is it said to mean better rather than best, as in the sentence? Thanks in advance.

Asked 6 years ago

L. B.C1Kwiziq community member

In the quiz it marked wrong when I spelled out dix minutes. in the answer it had 10 mins

Asked 8 years ago

Will s.A2Kwiziq community member

Some additional resources?I'm really struggling with bringing all the preposition rules together for cities, regions, states, countries. Just as I slowly think i am cracking it with à, de (to/from cities), au, du (to/from m countries) and en/de - I then hit the stumbling block with regions and states as on the lesson here I read it also applies to countries. I have searched for YouTube videos to explain but it seems hard to find one where someone goes over all the different variables. Can anyone suggest a good single point of reference?

Asked 8 years ago

BETHSAINA G.A0Kwiziq community member

is it required to be specific about the genders

what does it matter if you are saying le ou la in front of the different subjects

Asked 6 years ago

Terri R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

If the type of hurt is not specified, is there a 'default' translation?

Asked 8 years ago

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