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Justme L.A0Kwiziq community member
Exactly how does one know when to you vous and when to use Ils

I was never aware "JACK and JILL' should take the pronoun Ils.   It was my belief ILS was reserved for all boys only.  

So now I see vous addressing the individuals IN the group.   Sort of like ILS is they and VOUS is similar to America's deep South as y'all, or the northeast as in you guys. 

So within the poem/song Jack and Jill went up the hill one wouldn't use the pronoun VOUS as it would change the meaning.   Is that correct?

Not Y'ALL or You guys or VOUS     went up the hill...  Jack and Jill are not the audience.

THEY or ILS went up the hill to fetch...  The audience is being addressed.  Not Jack and Jill.

Dear professor, is that about right?

Asked 7 years ago
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Shrey R.A1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
Pls help in replacing the nouns in these sentences with 'en' pronoun- 1. J'ai envie d'une nouvelle voiture. 2. Il y a dix oranges sur la table. 3.

3. Nous donne-t-il des billets d'avion ?

Asked 7 years ago
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Jan H.B1Kwiziq community member
Why not the present tense in vous prendrez du sucre
Asked 8 years ago
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Diane d.C1Kwiziq community member
This lesson is very difficult to understand

Unlike other explanatory lessons in Lawless French, I find this lesson incredibly difficult to understand.(And. I think I'm a decent student!) I'd like to recommend that you all give it a big cleansing edit. And now, I'll go back and re-read it (for about the fourth time) and try to figure out what I'm supposed to learn.

Asked 6 years ago
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Ergun S.A1Kwiziq community member
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William C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Subjunctive or infinitive

In all your examples, the two subjects are different. But what happens when they are the same? Can you just use the infintive?

For example

Unless I want to buy something, I only need my house key.

À moins que JE veuille acheter quelque chose, JE n'ai besoin que de ma clé de maison.

À moins de vouloir acheter quelque chose, je n'ai besoin que de ma clé de maison. 

Asked 6 years ago
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Jean W.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Based on a true story

Bonjour à tous,

Could you tell me how to say this in French ? Thanks

Asked 6 years ago
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Mike H.B2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Etre cense faire

"On est censes marcher".   I have never seen a lesson on this usage.  Is censer a verb--I can't find it.  Is there a lesson on this?

Asked 3 years ago
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David S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Et ce mardi-là, il devait la retrouver pour boire un verre… In the B2 writing challenge "Pre Date Stress" the translation of "And that Tuesday, he was supposed to meet her to have a drink..." is "Et ce mardi-là, il devait la retrouver pour boire un verre… ".Other alternatives are offered but all use devoir.Couldn't this one also be valid: "Et ce mardi-là il était censé la retrouver pour boire une verre"as well as the possibility of using "prendre une verre" instead of "boire une verre"?If so should the excercise be updated?
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Ronald V.B2Kwiziq community member
No liaison after qui?

A quiz question has this answer:

"Qu'est-ce qui a changé entre nous ?"

Why there's no liaison after "qui", like "... qu'a changé..."?

Asked 6 years ago
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