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William C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

The destination.

I am confused. Why is "à Lille" understood for the first clause but included in the second clause.

Le premier train part à sept heures moins le quart, et il arrive à Lille à huit heures.

The first train to Lille leaves at quarter to seven, and it arrives in Lille at eight.

Asked 6 years ago

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Janet S.A1Kwiziq community member

Examples of conditionnel passé

At this link, https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/revision/glossary/verb-tense-mood/the-french-past-conditional-le-conditionnel-passe the two examples near the top of the page seem to be of the conditionnel présent instead of the conditionnel passé. Am I missing something?

Asked 6 years ago

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Glen C.A2Kwiziq community member

Bonjour, j'ai une question. Pourquoi ce dit 'Je suis le Roi Soleil', c'est le Roi de Soleil, n'est-ce pas?

Asked 6 years ago

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Bill C.C1Kwiziq community member

Express intent

I think it would be useful pedagogically to tie faire exprès de to the english express in the sense of express intent

Asked 6 years ago

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Gunel M.A0Kwiziq community member

ello I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION THAT THE MAIN PROBLEM REGARDING LISTENING PROCESS IS WE CANNOT MOVE THE PLAYING LINE SUCH AS BACK AND FORWARD PLEASEhello I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION THAT THE MAIN PROBLEM REGARDING LISTENING PROCESS IS WE CANNOT MOVE THE PLAYING LINE SUCH AS BACK AND FORWARD PLEASE

Asked 6 years ago

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manpreet kaur j.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Passer vs Traverser

Why can’t we use on traverserait de la Guadeloupe.... in stead of on passer de la Guadeloupe?

Asked 4 years ago

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Alfredo H.B1Kwiziq community member

Wrong verb used in your quiz Nous select ... desservionsdesservonsdesservissonsdesseronstoute la région. (We're servicing the whole region.)Conjugate ''desservir'' in Le PrésentDesservir =/= servir....Right????

Asked 7 years ago

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Lori A.A2Kwiziq community member

quitter/sortir

I'm a little confused here because I understand quitter to mean to leave something for good and sortir is merely to leave a place. in the question to translate: They leave their work at 7 o'clock - It seems the correct answer should be - Ils sortent leur travail à 19h, but the correct answer is giving me: Ils quittent leur travail à 19h. Why then is this correct?

Asked 4 years ago

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M. M.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

A querying tone?

The lesson states, "Just as in English, you can state something with a querying tone..." but none of the above examples sound like questions to me. They all sound like flat statements. The voice does not rise at the ends of these questions like it would in English. Is a "querying tone" different in French?

Asked 7 years ago

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