French language Q&A Forum

canard is duck in French. paon is peacock.

Why not bleu paon?

what is the meaning of  "s'acharner sur/contre" in English? will you please give me some examples?

Les expression négatives. 

Nous ne voulons ni crayons ni stylos. 

Nous ne voulons ni de crayons ni de stylos.  

Which of the above is right?  To my knowledge, always partitive articles are omitted. But I saw some sentences with de. 

Salut. "Dont" c'est un pronom relatif qui me confond toujours -- quelquefois je me sens que je le comprends un peu mieux.

"Un traitement antirétroviral prophylactique est proposé à celles dont la test est positif"

Pourquoi dont? avec quoi s'accord il? peut-on dire ".... a celles pour qui la test est positif"?

Is it always the case?

Is habite always habite or can it sometimes habit? And if this question is yes, then why can't habite be habit?

One of the Kwizzes had "Achètes-en deux ou trois." for which the answer was "buy two or three of them". I think very often one would omit "of them" in English and wonder if that was a second correct answer, as it was a single-choice question ?

My point of view- its equivalent in english to say- I don't like anything but apples...if you put this in mind you will not get confused.  so it means you like only apples.

 Je n'aime que les pommes.

Tu es reste' enferme' ____________ une heure.  I put "pendent" which should have been "durant".  I have reviewed the lesson and can't find any distinction between pendent and durant.  What am I missing?