French language Q&A Forum

Line 7: My answer of vingt-huit was marked incorrect compared to Kwizbot's answer of ving-huit - no 't' at the end of vingt.

Lesson says only the 1st day of the month is cardinal, my test asked for the translation of May 1, I said le 1er mai, as per lesson...you said it was wrong and should have been le 1 mai...contradictory lessons!

Je adore LE Chocolat, but Je mange DU pain.  You are generalizing in both sentences.  I see no difference.  Why is it DU pain?

Somehow it was hard to understand the verbes after »elle » but of course it’s my fault, I need to study

'Je me souviens encore de la première fois' : could toujours be used as an alternative to encore here ?

When I took French in school I remember there being a confusion with leur and leurs around sentences such as "the men went to their cars" where there was a difference between each man going to his own individual car versus the cars being collectively owned by the group of men.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Or is it just "les hommes sont allés à leurs voitures" for both?

lists all lessons connectes to piece but no vocab

1. J'arriverai avant qu'ils n'aient mangé.

2. Nous voulons que tu aies rangé ta chambre avant ce soir.

3. J'ai attendu qu'il soit monté dans le train pour partir

I use Avoir when Transitive as is #2 but why avoir in #1 which is intransitive as is #3.

This is the most confusing subject I have encountered so far. Please explain.

if show me your hands is tes , why isn't it ta main for raise your hand/