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amy a.A0Kwiziq community member

Je viens d'Ulaanbaatar en Mongolie

Asked 9 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 8 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 7 years ago

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AurélieKwiziq Head of French, Native French Teacher

Susan asked: "Is repeating "des" before "sœurs" optional?""Vous avez des frères et sœurs ?"

Asked 9 years ago

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Inga Marie C.A1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Ton père est ________ prison.

Prison seems like a pretty specific place... so why 'en' instead of 'dans la'?

Asked 7 years ago

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ted a.C1Kwiziq community member

the "eXer" verbs--what does this mean?

I find the use of the "X" here somewhat confusing. Is it standing in for "any consonant"? Or rather, any consonant except for "t" and "l"? If so, why does the first example show "compléter" as an example of a "eXer" verb? There seem to be two other ways of expressing this "any consonant" stand in on this site. I find "(-)" is used in some lessons, and "*" is used in others. None of the three are explained anywhere that I could find.

This seems needlessly confusing to me.

I just discovered this site and am very impressed otherwise.

Asked 6 years ago

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Jack G.C1Kwiziq community member

aimer vs aimer beaucoup

Why does 'I love to dance' translate as J'aime beaucoup', whereas 'I love to shine' is simply 'J'aime'? How do we know when the speaker really likes something when its only implied? I have seen the unspoken 'beaucoup' in other exersizes as well.

Asked 5 years ago

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T. E.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

On a childhood record album, I learnedAinsi font, font, font les petites marionettes. Ainsi font, font, font trois petits tours et puis s'en vont! (Although I had incorrectly remembered it as 'et puis s'en va'.)Now I know better! Merci!

Asked 8 years ago

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Lucy O.C1Kwiziq community member

Have not Received Weekend Writing ChallengeI have not received my weekend writing challenge; it is not in spam or any other folders. Can you help?

Asked 8 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...