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Stewart H.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

translation of 'so that shapes appear'.

In the lesson 'Pour que (so that, in order that) is always followed by Le Subjonctif ' it states that the subjunctive is used: When something happens so that / in order that someone else does something.

The translation given for 'so that shapes appear' is 'pour que des formes apparaissent'.

As there is no 'someone else' involved here, presumably apparaissent is not in the subjunctive?

Asked 7 years ago

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Fran B.A1KwizIQ community member

When I say Le mardi et le jeudi , [je nage] or [ je faire de la natation] à cinq heur. Which one would be correct?

It is a regular activity bit Je faire de la natation seems wrong in this context.

Asked 7 years ago

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Carl C.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

passer au court-bouillon

Can someone translate "passer au court-bouillon" into English. I can't find this anywhere. Thank you.

Asked 5 years ago

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Andrea N.B2KwizIQ community member

Une soirée mouvementée (Passé Composé with être)

The 1st sentence in this fill-in-the-blank quiz was " Laissez-moi vous raconter ce qu'il nous........" Translated as, "Let me tell you what happened to us! My response was conjugated to Nous, and so, "sommes arrivés" was incorrect. Should I have conjugated the answer with moi, the subject of the verb? The correct answer was "est arrivé" . Could you please explain why IL became the subject? Thanks.

Asked 6 years ago

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Oldrich G.A1KwizIQ community member

Can I skip the cities/countries lessons till later?I've been doing your excellent course for almost a week. For me, the dynamic algorithmic quizzes are a superb feature. I believe in "Active recall", as used in Anki.

I'm still in the "initial enthusiasm" stage, where I try to take maximum advantage of the initial surge, before gradually levelling off to a normal rate.

On today's dashboard, I notice that there are five recommended lessons relating to countries, cities, and so on.

I'm striving to think of a reason why it would be great to know, for example, "la Cornouailles". I suppose if I were in France, and someone asked me if I came from "la Cornouailles", I could say "Oui", or possibly "Non".

I've worked in five countries having five different language. (That's why I now speak and write very short sentences. Sorry about that.) I don't recall ever needing to know the name of a different country, or a town in a different country.

So, is it possible for me to simply postpone these lessons until later? Would that screw up my Dashboard? If I do the quizzes quickly by giving the first anwer that occurs to me, would that confuse the bot?

Thanks.

Asked 8 years ago

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John B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

In the example in which they sweep the floor before we come, why is it nous ne venions instead of nous venions? Why is ne there?

Asked 8 years ago

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Kristina N.KwizIQ community member

how to use the months of the years in sentences