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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Ann H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

In the third line :nous n'avons pas été déçus du tout! I used n'étions pas déçu du tout thinking this was an opinion or a description of their

feelings at the time....why am I wrong?

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Judy B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Using ‘depuis’ and ‘I’ll

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Dot L.A1Kwiziq community member

If convenir is used to mean to agree what preposition follows?

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Tanya L.C1Kwiziq community member

Allez, dépêche-toi !

Why is it Allez when it is followed by the tu form of the verb? Why isn’t it Va?

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steve i.C1Kwiziq community member

Avant de + infinitive

The guidance says 'any object is placed between the de and the infinitive' so I'm puzzled as to why the example given doesn't end 'avant d'une solution trouver' instead of the given 'avant de trouver une solution'. Merci!

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Tatiana D.C1Kwiziq community member

L’histoire de la France

Bonjour à tous ! I did a bit of the research and I would say le Dauphin and Charles d’Orléans are two different people. Le Dauphin, the son of Charles VI and Isabeau of Bavaria, became indeed Charles VII but Charles d’Orléans is the son of the assassinated Louis I d’Orléans, Duke of Orléans.

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Michael R.A2Kwiziq community member

Past particles don’t agree with indirect objects

Hi Aurélie,

I notice a few people have asked the same question about the sentence - Tu lui as parlé' being translated as 'You talked to her' but parlé not agreeing with a feminine ‘lui’. You have said that the past participle doesn’t agree with an indirect object pronoun, and refer people to the advanced lesson: Special cases where the past participle agrees... However that lesson only talks about direct object pronouns and doesn’t actually say that the past participle doesn’t agree with an indirect object pronouns. I wondered if - for completeness and clarity - you could add that to the lesson, if it is not covered elsewhere. Many thanks.

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Tom A.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

au monde vs. du monde

I am looking at the phrase 'toute la nourriture que j'aimais le plus au monde' and wondering why it's 'au monde' and not 'du monde'. According to Larousse, 'au monde' 'renforce une négation : Personne au monde ne peut dire le contraire'; whereas 'du monde' 'renforce un superlatif : Tout s'est passé le mieux du monde'.

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