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Ann H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

I thought devaient être meant should have been...shouldn't it be les gens doivent avez été?

Asked 6 years ago

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Michael R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

De in a name.

Just when I thought I had all this sorted ! In an English novel about a house in France, there are two old derelict buildings one formerly housed pigs and the other was formerly used for making bread. They nick named the first one la maison de cochons and the other la maison du pain. Why the de / du and not just de for both since they are just names ?

Asked 6 years ago

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Helen H.B1Kwiziq community member

Avoir raisonI've always heard "avoir raison" translated as/used more like "to have a point" than "to be right", and to that end have always thought of it as fairly informal. Seeing it translated as "to be right" leads me to wonder whether it's a little more versatile in terms of tone than I'd thought?

Asked 4 years ago

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H. A.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Conditional followed by the infinitive

In the exercise, the meaning of "Il aurait adoré la rencontrer" is given as "He would have loved meeting her". Am I correct in assuming that it can also be translated as "He would have loved to meet her"? In the first instance, in English, the implication is that he actually did meet her, but the second means that he hadn't met her at the time.

To go further, would "He would have loved to have met her" be translated as "Il aurait adoré l'avoir rencontrée"? Is this idiomatic?

Asked 4 years ago

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Ann H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

l'année où Hitler est né....that would be a precise time an action took place, right? The lesson confirms that such a date would be an, not année.

Asked 6 years ago

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Shrey R.A1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Ma (belle) famille Challenge

Bonjour Madame,

In this quiz , there is a sentence as "surtout quand elle détache ses longs cheveux roux."

Here, I am puzzled as to why possessive adjective is used with a body part but there is a lesson which contradicts by advising to use definite articles. Is this an exception ?

Secondly, why is 'roux' used for red ? Why not "rouges" ?

Bonne journée !

Asked 7 years ago

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Max K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Fun fact for those Americans who began studying French in the early 60s

The first words I learned in French were the first words in my very first French textbook:

J'entre dans la salle de classe. Je regarde autour de moi.

Thank you for accepting that as an alternative answer.

Asked 4 years ago

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Mark P.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Confused again.. je suis monté par?

I am confused. J'ai monté les escaliers.. Why.. unless I am a carpenter and I have a set of escaliers on my shoulder, surely I remain the intransitive subject .. I am not doing anything to the stairs.. I am climbing using the stairs. I am carrying myself, not the stairs. Could you use je suis monté par les escaliers? to escape the trap?

Asked 5 years ago

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Olaedo O.B1Kwiziq community member

Why is the adverb not following the verb?

Why is the final phrase "je mettrai mon réveil plus tôt!" and not "je mettrai plus tôt mon réveil!"? I though adverbs come directly after the verb.

Asked 4 years ago

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Inge B.C1Kwiziq community member

is there a lesson on the difference between que and quoi?

Asked 6 years ago

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