French language Q&A Forum

It is not verb “être”. Then why are you using un and not de in the example “il rester un ami loyal” and “il ne reste pas un ami loyal”

Why not “il ne reste pas d’ami loyal

Why is "it" in this sentence "la" instead of "le:" Tu ne la lui écris pas. 

in this context, if you were speaking of yourself and your partner, would you use 'on'?  I thought that on was used as a more general term as we can use 'one' in English.  

Why isn’t there an infinite in the above phrase ? 

Bonjour,

Can I use des longtemps as the duration with pendant, ie, je vais vivre en france pendant des longtemps? Or is longtemps not considered a specific time frame?

Merci :)

In a lot of the French sentences on Kwiziq, the stress sounds like it is on an odd part of the sentence and I can't figure out the pattern. For example, in "Tu te laves les mains?" above, the word laves is stressed in the recording. And the voice doesn't rise at the end like I would expect for a question. Is that how the question would really be spoken in French? Is there a section here that explains which parts of a sentence are normally stressed?

So "demeurer" sounds "posh"? What about "habiter"? Don't they mean the same thing?