French language Q&A Forum

Hello, 

Any tricks to guess the gender? Like for example, I heard somewhere that about 75% of the time nouns ending with 'e' will be of feminine gender. 

Merci d'advance! :)

À la bibliothèque

I answered.......... à moins que ce NE SOIT un peu trop long?

The correct response was....... à moins que ce SOIT un peu trop long?

I thought "à moins que" was followed by the ne explétif?

I do not understand why the expression correctly reads dix heures vingt-trois instead of more simply dix heures vingt trois?  In other words what is the rule for adding a hypen in this expression.  I did not see this need to add hyphen mentioned in the lesson.  

The test statement is "J'habite _____ Texas." The hint is "Le Texas is an American State." Shouldn't the answer be "J'habite dans le Texas" according to the very first example in the regions, states, counties section yet the answer given is "J'habite au Texas." All the exceptions are overwhelming but this seems to be exactly like the example.

soir vs soiree 

I don't know if there are any more. Thank you in advance! 

Hello there,

What is the difference/nuance between this two sentences?

Je ne vais jamais à Marseille. 

Je ne suis jamais allée à Marseille. 

In the first example, "se demander" does not agree in number or gender because the reflexive pronoun "se" is an indirect object.  Why doesn't that same rule apply to "se sentir" (I feel)?  Thanks.