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hart w.A1Kwiziq community member

What about negatives?

Where do I put the negative with lui/leur? For example:"No, I don't write to him."

Would this be "Non, je ne lui écris pas" or "Non, je lui n'écris pas"? I don't know if the negative surrounds the pronoun too.

Asked 6 years ago

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Michael P.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Tu manques à Lise. Lise misses you. -> It's not Lise misses you. anymore, but literally You are lacking to Lise........

This part of the lesson is really messing with my learning process. Please answer me this....In the example, "Tu manques à Lise", IS it or IS IT NOT "Lise misses you." ???

Asked 6 years ago

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Nick H.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

To make an appointment

Hello,

"Il faut que je prenne un rendez-vous à la banque"

In spoken french, is it more common to drop the indefinite article when making an appointment. i.e prendre rendez-vous rather than prendre un rendez-vous? What's most common in everyday spoken french?

Nick

Asked 4 years ago

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Anita P.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Un après-midi

Should it not be “Pour cet après-midi” ?

Asked 4 years ago

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Ely D.A0Kwiziq community member

Prefessur/Professure

the question about the Professor: I put Leon as it's Prefessur and not Professure (F)? But it was wrong. Is that because of neologism? so, Professure is not used?

Asked 2 years ago

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Richard R.C1Kwiziq community member

I wondered why 'je vais me battre à' is not as acceptable as 'je vais avoir du mal à' for 'I am going to struggle'. Perhaps not as colloquial?

Asked 6 years ago

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Olivia S.A1Kwiziq community member

Can one use 2 forms of aller?

Bonjour, just to clarify, it is correct to use conjugated aller + infinitive aller?

Example: Je vais aller au cinéma. This is correct?

Asked 6 years ago

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Talina O.C1Kwiziq community member

When to use the partitive article?Quand j'ai envie de la viande— This was my answer to one of the writing exercises. I wrote de la, the correct answer omitted the la. The prompt was—When I want meat...Despite reading the other items in the the discussion, it still is not clear to me whether or not to use the article. It is my understanding that de la or du are partitive articles and one is required if you’re not using a definite article in most cases. I can see a relationship to the the negation pattern. I have no bread—Je n’ai pas de pain. This usage is merely something I think that I have memorized. I can’t actually explain the grammar points involved. Please clarify. Thank you!

Asked 5 years ago

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Mariyam A.Kwiziq community member

Why not use t' instead of tu?

If je converts into j' in certain words such as j'aime and j'habite because of the vowels and silent h, then why doesn't nous become nous' in the same words like nous'aime as 'aime' also starts with vowel 'a' before them?

Asked 2 years ago

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Julian B.C1Kwiziq community member

More manquer confusionSorry, I'm still not understanding the difference between "Je manque d'argent pour payer mes factures." and "Il me manque deux euros pour pouvoir l'acheter." Their contexts seem identical. The lesson talks about the second construction being "impersonal" and "not mentioning a lacker" but that doesn't seem right.

What am I missing?

Asked 5 years ago

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