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Kaiying C.B2Kwiziq community member

"ses parents se sont embrassés"Literally, this sentence could mean 1. His parents kissed themselves; or 2, His parents kissed each other. But I cannot figure out how a person could kiss himself, so the 1st meaning makes no sense to me. So, in a multiple choice I would discard the 1st answer, but apparently I was wrong for not including it. Please explain.

Asked 9 years ago

D K.C1Kwiziq community member

Why can you use inversion with nouns in this expression?According to the lesson 'Forming inverted questions with names, things and emphasis', you can't use inversion with nouns (for example, 'Vient Sophie?'); you need to add a pronoun ('Sophie vient-elle?'). But here in the examples we see 'Comment vont tes enfants?' and 'Comment va Paul?'. Why isn't it 'Comment tes enfants vont?' or 'Comment tes enfants vont-ils?' Is this a peculiarity of this particular expression, or are there other cases where inversion can be used with nouns with no pronoun?

Asked 8 years ago

Bill A.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Construction correct

Could someone help me determine if this construction is correct:

J’ai vraiment toujours beaucoup plus de choses à apprendre.

Merci d'avance!

Asked 7 years ago

Hanna W.B2Kwiziq community member

How do these work with en?If you want the quantifier to be a direct object, would you use it like: Paul a bu quelques verres de vin hier ---> Paul en a bu quelques hier ??

Asked 8 years ago

Ann H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Il y a des toiles d'arraignées partout. Tu ___as vue (Did you see them?)I filled the blank with en but the correct answer was les. Please explain why I'm wrong.

Asked 8 years ago

M O S.Kwiziq community member

can you say: c'est nageaux, to say it's cloudy, or can only use il y des nuages?

Asked 6 years ago

Dragana E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Conjugation of subjonctive in sentence

Nous avions dû nettoyer la maison avant que mes parents ne vissent le désordre.

What is the verb "vissent" - I can only find - voir/ils voient

Merci

Dragana

Asked 7 years ago

paul b.C1Kwiziq community member

Avant de or avant que

Hhello one of the question was avant que je ne vienne je dois acheter des fleurs, can I also use avant de in this situation avant de venir Paul

Asked 6 years ago

marn m.A1Kwiziq community member

I always learned It as “comment vous appelez vous”. Is this not correct?

Asked 7 years ago

Ann M.C1Kwiziq community member

Rousse masculine or feminine"What is the gender of the person talking? "Je suis rousse.""

My answer was "ambiguous".

The corrent answer is "feminine". I don't get it. If the question refers to the people of Russia, I thought that was "russe", the same in both the feminine and the masculine.

Asked 3 years ago

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