French language Q&A Forum

Can you say this? Or would it have to be “J‘ai descendu l’escalier roulant.” 

This lesson has me scratching my head with the simple question - why is it here? One of the very few things I remember from O level french (failed) was that regular past participles form ER>é, IR>i and RE>u so to my way of thinking battre follows the regular rule. Maybe this is because french is taught differently in France than it was in England 40 years ago, I remember reading somewhere that the french don't have the same concept of group 3 (-RE) verbs but have several smaller groups including -DRE.

Bonjour Madame,

In the English audio for this lesson, the speaker says ‘sad’ instead of ‘proud’. Please amend it.

Bonne journée !

A small question.  Tiers-Monde or tiers-monde ?

Should Tiers-Monde really be  capitalised ?

I've looked at 3 dictionaries and it is spelt in lower case in all of them.  If I was taking an exam , would either answer be acceptable ?

Any general rules about this ?

Thanks , Paul.

Can this structure be used with futur proche? (is this considered a compound tense?)

Eg. We are only going to buy one toy. ——> Nous n’allons que acheter un jouet.

Or do we use futur simple (this is a simple tense?) ——> Nous n'achèterons qu'un jouet.

Je veux simplement remercier Aurélie pour vos lessons superbes et commenter que ma mère, Marcelle Eudes a quitté Le Havre en 1936 pour étudier l'anglais à l'université de Southampton et elle aussi a resté en Angleterre (à part les années de la guerre où elle est retournée au Havre jusqu'à la fin du bombardement) pendent toute sa vie jusqu'à 93 ans.  Elle aurait eu 100 ans cette année.  C'était toujours vers maman que nous avons dirigé nos questions concernant la grammaire soit en français soit en anglais!  Merci à vous brillantes enseignantes!  Anthony Ford-Jones (Canada)

What does "kiki" mean?  I understand it in context, but wonder if it has a life of its own.  Thanks.