French language Q&A Forum

What are cucurbitaces?  The translation gives the same word and I can't find it in my dictionary.  Thank you!

In the test question with the magic beanstalks, the only accepted answer is Jack got off the magic bean stalk.

In three dictionaries that I have looked up (especially Le Robert & Collins), one of the meanings of decendre with etre is to 'climb down (a tree). Now the preposition 'from' is missing in those definitions but is that so significant a difference that the answer 'Jack climbed down the magic beanstalk" becomes incorrect.

From the lesson:

J'en ai rachete, juste au cas ou. And "with juste au cas ou, youn can only use Le Conditional.  

But the conditional is j'aurais achete or is this s typo?

Jack

The lesson says that apparaitre and naitre and derivatives use etre in the passe compose.  But in the Test, the rabit disapeared from the hat uses avoir.

Paul should have left earlier is given as 'Paul aurait du partir plus tot'.

I could have learnt to swim is given as 'J'aurais pu apprendre a nager'

These are exactly the same constructions, therefore they can not both be correct.

(Apologies for the absence of diacritic marks)

Does the past tense structure require agreement? For example, I can say:

"Il s'est fait couper les cheveux."

Would I also say:

"Elle s'est faite couper les cheveux."

I'm asking because I answered one of the test questions as "Je me suis faite brosser les cheveux" but it was marked wrong.

thanks, Scott