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John C.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Toutes before verbs beginning with vowels

Bonjour,

In the lesson you give the following example:

Mes amis sont venus et tous étaient contents.

But if we change the gender, are these three examples correct?

Mes amies sont venues et toutes étaient contentes. (all of them were happy)

Mes amies sont venues et elles étaient toutes contentes. (they were all happy)

Mes amies sont venues et elles étaient tout contentes. (they were very happy)

Thanks for all your work on this subject. This lesson is long but it's the most comprehensive explanation I've found.

John

Asked 4 years ago

James W.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

bénéficier de and profiter de mean a similar thing so I shouldn't get marked down for using the first one ?

Asked 5 years ago

mary s.C1KwizIQ community member

past of subjunctive

When is the past subjunctive used in the 'by the time...", if ever.

Asked 6 years ago

Anne C.C1KwizIQ community member

strange translation"Nous ________ qu'il ne change d'avis. We fear that he would change his mind. HINT: Conjugate ''craindre'' (to fear) in Le Présent.

Question: why does this mean "we fear that he would change his mind" ? Is it the ne-que=only? that he changes his mind?

This was on my Kwizig test and I just don't see anything that indicates "would."

merci,

anne

Asked 7 years ago

Joan C.A1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Nous offrons le café, le thé et le jus de fruits.

The correct answer is using partitive article. But I wonder why I cannot use definite article here? I regard them as general item, same case in 'J'aime écoute de la musique' = 'J'aime écoute la musique'

Asked 7 years ago

Paula B.C1KwizIQ community member

Have you ever...

Hi, I have just finished a B2 writing challenge where

'Had you ever had news of Tatania' was translated as

- Et ça t'arrive d'avoir des nouvelles de Tatiana ?

I cannot understand the sentence structure, and I cannot find an explanation of 'arriver de' on the site. Can you point me to the relevant grammar.

Thanks

Asked 6 years ago

Helen O.A2KwizIQ community member

'En hiver' vs 'L'hiver'.

This explanation doesn't explain why sometimes one says 'L'hiver' and at other times, 'En hiver', and similar for other seasons. The examples given do not enlighten me much. I have always had trouble with this. At first I thought, oh, you use 'l'hiver' when you are going to say something describing a feature of 'hiver', and 'En hiver' when you want to say something happened during 'hiver', but then the other examples given in context of other seasons etc mostly described activities occurring during the season regardless of the 'en' or 'l'' beginning.

I need it stated explicitly what the rule is, there doesn't appear to be one.

Asked 1 year ago

Liz H.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Questions with names.

Is it absolutely wrong to use est-ce que to form a question using names? Thanks.

Asked 6 years ago

G B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Re - not being able to use a conjugated verb after le lendemain.

The following sentence is given as an example in a dictionary explanation for "le lendemain".

"Il a été décrété que le lendemain serait un jour férié".

Is this sentence grammatically incorrect because it uses the conjugated verb serait after le lendemain?

Asked 7 years ago

ogunrayewa d.A1KwizIQ community member

How do you write 8:39am in french

How do you write 8:39am in french

Asked 6 years ago

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