French language Q&A Forum

Do I not need to use ‘y’ as it means “to arrive there’? ‘mais j’y suis arrivée’?  Please explain. Thanks.

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?

Bonjour Chris

Elles ________ pendant tout le film !" They will have chatted during the whole film!HINT: Conjugate "bavarder" in Le Futur Antérieur

The correct answer was Elles auront bavarde pendant tout le film.

Why does bavarder here not agree in gender and number? Or am I missing something?

Please help, I have struggled with lesson for awhile now.

In a test the sentence "Nous étions toujours ensemble à cette époque." was translated as

We were still together at that time.  Does "toujours" mean "still?"  Or should the translation be We were always together at that time.  ?

Merci.