Does anyone else find an over use of the exclamation marks ? I don’t take off marks if I don’t put in as many as given in the answers. Is this a particular French thing?

Asked 2 years ago

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Darrell B.A1KwizIQ community member

confused about 'C'est' when taking about people?C'est ma sœur. and C'est le fils de Martha.

Can we not just use ''Elle est ma soeur'' and ''Il est le fils de Martha'' ?

Edit: Nevermind, I asked my French friend who told me that you specifically cannot say 'Il/elle est un/une/mon/ma etc'

This rule only applies to the pronouns 'Il' (he) and 'Elle' (she).

So I've answered my previous question, so No you cannot say ''Elle est ma soeur'' it has to be ''C'est ma soeur''

I felt like it wasn't explained very in the lesson! (sorry!) I hope anyone seeing this message finds this helpful.

Asked 5 years ago

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S. N.B2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

I just did a quiz that says “Ils partent leur travail à 19h“ is wrong & “Ils quittent leur travail à 19h” is the correct answer. Can someone please explain why this is so? I can’t see why “partent” is wrong given what the lesson content says.

Asked 7 years ago

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Jane B.B1KwizIQ community member

Confused about when toute changes to toutSa sœur est tout heureuse de sa nouvelle maison.His sister is very happy with her new house.La Tour Eiffel est tout illuminée.The Eiffel Tower is completely lit up.

As you can see, in such cases, tout becomes toute in front of feminine adjectives, but only when they start with a consonant or an aspirated h.

But in the above examples tout did not become toute...what am I missing....???

Asked 6 years ago

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Dieter K.C1KwizIQ community member

Rapporter vs Retourner

When looking around on the internet, it seems like "Retourner" is used here and there, both informal on message boards and formal on shopping sites (for example H&M website: "POUR RETOURNER UN ACHAT EN LIGNE"), for indicating returning an item.

Could you elaborate on this and why you write "Retourner never means to return (something) in the context of a shop for example." ?

Asked 1 year ago

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Betsy D.B2KwizIQ community member

Venir de vs. être de

In this lesson on “venir de “ , you use the following as example 8:

Je suis de La Rochelle
I'm from La Rochelle

Why is it “Je suis de” instead of “Je viens de”?

Asked 6 years ago

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White L.A2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Passé Composé of êtreI thought Etre is typically imparfait because it expresses a state of being or background information. "L'accueil du public a été bouleversant." Why is this verb in this sentence PC? Merci!