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hemlata g.A2Kwiziq community member

A descendu ou a descendue

Hi Aurélie

I was doing an exercise which has this question:

La valise qu'il ( est descendue, a descendue, a descendu) du grenier hier est neuve.

What will be the correct answer? As my understanding says intransitive verbs take être as auxillary but the answer given is a descendue ( why the accord?)

Asked 3 years ago

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Dragana E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Quel/Qu'est-ce qu* - ?

In writing challenge "Problems at the hotel" - Quel est le problème?

I wrote "Qu'est-ce qui est le problème? - can this be correct as well?

Asked 7 years ago

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Shruti C.A1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Hello

Please if you can help me out to understand where to put de+infinitive. I am so confused.

Par example- laissez-moi de penser pourquoi de ici ?

C’est mon rêve de travailler à l’étranger. Why I putted de here I can simply write c’est mon rêve travailler.

Et je sais que je dois pratiquer. Why here it’s not de after pratiquer?

Please if you can share me the lesson of this I have tried to search a lot but I am not able to understand properly where to put de+infinitive and where not.

Thank You :)

Asked 7 years ago

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Andrea N.B2Kwiziq community member

Qu'est-ce qui....

Recently I came across " Qu'est-ce qui ce passe ?" and was informed it was a standard expression in French. I would like to know more about this expression (and any other related ones). A search of Kwiziq failed to come up with it. Merci d'avance, Andrea

Asked 6 years ago

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Haloui A.A0Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

How we say in french she live in...

Asked 7 years ago

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Rene S.B2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Ron, thanks. Sometimes you say "it's being repeated, therefore use c'est ". But in the case of Didier, its being repeated, so il is OK. IOW, I don't know when to use cest or il! What a struggle! You mentioned context. I made up all my examples. Could this lesson provide LOTS OF EXAMPLES WITHCONTELX CONTEXT? Maybe by reading dozens of context based examples, we learners may eventually get this difficult topic...

Asked 8 years ago

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William C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Reflexive verbs

The question was:

Et vous ________ à une soirée.And you met each other at a party.HINT: rencontrer = to meet

The answer given was vous vous êtes rencontrés however is vous vous êtes rencontrées not also a possible answer?

Asked 7 years ago

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William C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Spelling out numbers

Is there a general rule in French about when to spell out numbers? For example in american english I think the rule is to spell out numbers ten or less and just use the number when greater than ten (eg, 12 instead of twelve). Thanks!

Asked 5 years ago

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Katrina B.A2Kwiziq community member

Is there a reason why this is the only verb that conjugates like this?

Asked 8 years ago

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