French language Q&A Forum

Would "D'ailleurs" also be acceptable in the sentence  that starts, "De plus, je n'ai jamais été très patient..." ?

I take issue with this.  In the very real sense 'vous vous appelez...'  is 'you call yourself...'.  Not 'votre nom est...' - 'your name is'. 

What I am CALLED - how I refer to myself or how others do - is not what my name is. They are two very different things, and in my family (and throughout many Russian-speaking families - though my family is English) people have names and then the diminutive or 'nickname' form. 

For example, my grandfather's name is Charles.  He is 'called' Ted.  

Therefore, why is 'you call yourself...' an incorrect translation? 

The question is:We don't hate that she is therelà. Why is Nous  ne haïssons qu'elle soit là.

Could someone explain the function/meaning of “droit aux”, in contrast to the simpler “les” that presumably could have been used? From “qui a eu droit aux fameuses nausées matinales.”. Thanks

in the phrase 'avec son architecture colorée.' Why is the adjective feminine when the subject is masculine ?

Way back in the dim, distant past when I first started learning French, I think I remember being told that to accept an offer, you say "s'il vous plaît" and to decline, you use 'merci". 

Eg.: Voulez-vous un verre de vin? Oui, s'il vous plaît./ Non, merci. 

I think we also learnt that if you simply replied "merci", it would be understood as declining the offer.

Is this correct?

I notice the omission of any article to go with jeux in the phrase 'l'opportunité d'essayer différents jeux'. Is this something to do with the word différents? For example, if there were no adjective, you would surely say 'l'opportunité d'essayer des jeux'...?