le gâteau était en forme de fusée ! so forme and fusée are two nouns with noun 2 acting as adjective (like 'la salle de classe). No article before first noun because of preposition 'en' which kinda fools us(well me) a bit. I tried "they made rocket shaped cakes" and got "ils ont fait des gâteaux en forme de fusée". Rockets have ONE SHAPE and thus all the cakes had that ONE shape.

I tried "they made cards in the shapes of flowers" and got "ils ont fait des cartes en forme de fleurs". Not 'formes'! Usually even behind idioms are solid grammatical truths.. I suspect this is a dumb question but does the use of 'en' in this context require a singular noun. Examples of 'not' dont come to mind... unless with a noun like 'larmes' which is really be default plural.

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Kelly B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

"If à is followed by le ou les, use the contracted forms au and aux."

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Shrey R.A1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

Bonjour Aurélie

Is it that pronom 'où' is followed by a noun or subject pronoun?

As seen in above examples.

Thanks a lot

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Brian E.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Subjunctive trigger?

Hi, what specifically triggered the subjunctive in “ Depuis, impossible de trouver une position qui puisse soulager la douleur.”?

Over time I’ve built a list of “subjunctive triggers” and all of them are of the format “[something] que”, but there’s no “que” in this case.

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Alex S.B1KwizIQ community member

pronunciation tip

the pronunciation tip at the end of this page says that -ais and -ai are pronounced the same. I found a comment by a duolingo mod linking to two pages that says otherwise:

http://bernardcousin.over-blog.com/pages/DE_LIMPORTANCE_DE_BIEN_PRONONCER-8743192.html

https://www.lalanguefrancaise.com/5-astuces-pour-ne-plus-confondre-le-conditionnel-et-le-futur

On forvo it does indeed sound like there is a subtle difference between aimerai and aimerais. é vs è. I hear the difference best when listening to other -ais words on forvo such as vais, sais, etc. It is subtle, but can someone else confirm that there is indeed an actual difference that contradicts the tip on this page?

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Natasha Z.C1KwizIQ community member

You won't say ''Elle marche plus lentemente que moi.''

In the instructions, the letters "t" and "e" on "lentemente" are crossed out but only the "e" should be crossed out (to become "lentement"); "lentemen" is not a word.

Asked 7 years ago

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Perrin T.B2KwizIQ community member

Why no double t for acheter (compléter, racheter) in the futur simple?

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Naveen S.A1KwizIQ community member

POURQUOI dans le phrase ...elle vont... et non ...elleS vont.. ?

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