French language Q&A Forum

Hi, the options “assoyez-vous” & “asseyez-vous” have hyphens, but the two instances of “veuillez vous asseoir” do not have one between “veuillez” & “vous”. It looks like these are all “short reversed-form questions”, so is there a reason for this difference?

Can we say nous étions censés .... instead of nous devions arriver....?

Je t'appelle ________ .

I'll call you before leaving.

votre réponse correcte est :

Je t'appelle avant de partir.

(I "will" call you before leaving)

Pourquoi pas :

Je « t'appelleras »...

Regarding  'Ils ________ pendant les vacances." you give the answer as 'auront grandi'. Reverso gives both an avoir and an etre form forr the future anterior of grandir. I assumed as this was intransiitive it would be the etre form?

I think I may need a bigger dictionary! I am struggling to find the appropriate word.  For example:

Le sol versus le plancher

imparable versus imbattable versus incomparable versus inégalable

évident versus manifeste. 

Also the suggested answer "je vais faire une machine" seems to translate as "I'm going to make a machine"

Help !!

....compared to most other languages.

I wrote: 

.....comparée à la majorité D'autres langues. 

Why is it DES autres langues?

Also

........so my mother tongue would have prepared me.....

I wrote:

.....que ma langue maternelle m'aurait préparéE

I thought an extra 'e' was required because of la langue?

I am still confused about whether should  I use Des or Les 

Je veux des bonbons
Je veux les bonbons

Why the second sentence wouldn't be correct?