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Kay C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

infinitives preceded by de

I am still unclear when to put a de in front of an infinitive verb. I understand when the de is part of a preceding expression but consistently get it wrong. Can you give me some definitive way to determine if the infinitive verb should be preceded by de (or not)?

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Tom A.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

When se souvenir isn't followed by de

I notice 'je me souviens écouter' is preferred over 'je me souviens d'écouter'. Is there any thinking on when you would use the 'de' and when not ?

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Ted M.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Qu’est-ce plus?

Quelle est le sense de `sujet ne verb plus` dans cet exercise?

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Adora O.C1Kwiziq community member

Player control

Hi! Could you please allow for the player control to have rewind and fast forward functions?It's a bit frustrating to have to mandatorily listen to the whole audio first if I want to replay just a certain part of it.

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Lorie R.C1Kwiziq community member

The use of le futur dans ce paragraphe

I'm curious about the use of the future tense throughout this paragraph. Was that a stylistic decision? In English, I can imagine the same paragraph using either present tense or even conditional tense. Would those tenses also be acceptable in French instead of future tense?

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Kenneth S.C1Kwiziq community member

Avoir L'Impératif

I got the following wrong on a test: Les enfants, n'________ pas peur! It says the correct answer is ayez. Why would you use the vous form when speaking to children? Should not the correct answer be aie? Thanks, Ken

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Kay C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

mon père et moi

Is it optional to use the subject pronoun after "mon pére et moi" as in The fireworks example?

Ma sœur et moi nous avons rejoint ...

compared "mon père et moi avons décidé" in Fishing with Dad?

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Jasvin K.B2Kwiziq community member

Fou has 3 singular forms

Why do we say "folle aventure" even when "a" is a vowel?