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David S.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Tu m’accompagnais à l'école tous les matinsIn the quiz I was marked wrong for selecting "You were accompanying me to school every mornming" for the translation of this sentence. It wanted "You used to accompany me to school every morning". Yet in another lesson (Avoir l'habitude de = To be in the habit of, to tend to (French Expressions with avoir)%252Fsearch%253Fs%253Dhabitude) you associate "used to" with "avoir d'habitude". To me (and Google Translate) that makes "You used to accompany me to school every morning" an inappropriate translation here. The other one, although less common than the obvious" You accompanied me to school every morning" seems the more appropriate choice.

Asked 8 years ago

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Hugh O.C1KwizIQ community member

Idionatic use of 'would 'Presumably one could translate into English using 'would': Eg 'We would go and see our grandmother on Sunday' carries the same sense of a repeated action that the imperfect does.

Asked 8 years ago

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Jean W.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Agreement of pronounsJust saw this in an online newsfeed. Accompagnée d'un ami originaire, comme elle, de la région lyonnaise, la victime entreprenait la descente de la Roche de Mio, lorsqu'elle a bifurqué dans le couloir pour repérer un passage sensé raccourcir l'itineraire. Is it correct to have the pronouns all agreeing with la victime, even when the victim was male ?

Asked 8 years ago

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Dori H.B2KwizIQ community member

French quotation marks I used French quotation marks « ... » but they were replaced with English ones. Is this correct?

Asked 6 years ago

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William S.A0KwizIQ community member

How do I say "I live in a city"?

Asked 7 years ago

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Madeleine G.C1KwizIQ community member

monter and descendre'Monter' and 'Descendre' weren't included on the list, but I believe they also conjugate with 'etre'. Do you cover these in a different topic?

Asked 8 years ago

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Helen P.A1KwizIQ community member

How do you conjugate vouloir in the present tense?

Asked 9 years ago

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Catriona T.C1KwizIQ community member

True negatives with the 'ne' explétifJust curious: how would you say "They are afraid that he won't come back"? Two ne's?

Asked 8 years ago

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James S.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Direct/indirect object pronouns

Okay, don't laugh, but why would chercher take a direct object pronoun? For example, why is it "il les cherche" and not "il leur cherche".

Merci !

Asked 3 years ago

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Ann H.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Ce sera trop génial! Why Ce and not Ça?

Asked 7 years ago

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