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Malini S.B2Kwiziq community member

Pendant/durant.....

In the test the sentence reads "I left for about 15 days." I put Je suis partie pour quinzaine de jours". They say the correct answer is "Je suis partie une quinzaine de jours." Could I have used pendant or durant?

Asked 5 years ago

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Rita L.C1Kwiziq community member

Translation of 'these days'

Why not ces temps-ci as well as ces jours-ci?

Asked 3 years ago

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Lorie R.C1Kwiziq community member

me présenter d'autres gens

I'm wondering why it's not correct to say "me présenter à d'autres gens"? I thought that présenter was followed by the preposition à.

Asked 5 years ago

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Joan C.A1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

"Some people thinks that vaccination cause ..." How do we translate this 'some' in French?

'Some' in this sentence can be thousands of people, we cannot use 'quelques' in this case, is it? But using de numbreux sounds subjective

Asked 6 years ago

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Jackie E.A2Kwiziq community member

What’s is with an item

I’m still struggling with the issue Adrienne raised. I get the “correct answer” but the Gruff says that it’s the option with only two que can only be used without a specific noun. But the example in the lesson clearly says Qu’est-ce que c’est un stylo is acceptable. I also got marked wrong on the baguette question.

Asked 6 years ago

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Hillary H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Faire de l'excercice

The answer to the following question was question was fasses.

Il faut que ________ l'exercice.You must do the exercise.HINT: ¨tu¨ form
I answered "tu fasses de," and it was incorrect.Why is "faire de l'excecice" incorrect?

Asked 5 years ago

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Ann M.C1Kwiziq community member

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Asked 5 years ago

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Brian E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

a dit Maman d'un ton admiratif en le voyant

“a dit Maman d'un ton admiratif en le voyant”

This seems such a strangely constructed sentence! Can anyone break it down?

(i) “admiratif” is an adjective (I think) but the possessive “ton” treats it like a noun.

(ii) “voyant” seems to be used as a present participle here (“the seeing”), but I’ve only seen these preceded by “en” before.

Asked 4 years ago

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Don C.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

pense que versus croire que

Both penser que and croire que are translated to "think that", although I think only croire que is ever translated to "believe that". A question in my recent (and final for the night) kwiz follows: Nicolas ______ Isabelle est intelligente. Nicolas thinks that Isabelle is clever.

I answered "croit que" and marked wrong. The correct answer was listed as "pense qu'" which led me to wonder: Would "croit qu'" have been correct as I think it should?

Asked 4 years ago

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Ann H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Please explain the differences in use of avoir besoin and il faut. In this case elle en avoir besoin was not a listed option.

Asked 6 years ago

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