French language Q&A Forum

none of the lesson examples gave info about aura (verb). I got the when/after part right which was in the lesson but something else caused me to get these wrong. I feel ripped and wronged. this was an unfair lesson.

Could someone comment on the function of “au” in “très au sérieux”? It is optional? In which other circumstances might we see a similar thing?

Shouldn't there be an accent above the 'i' in apparaitront? 

I was marked incorrect for writing "apparaîtront".

My question is similar to Liz.  While I resolved the test question "Ce matin, ________ monté au grenier pour ranger un peu." by acknowledging that you dont 'climb the attic' but rather 'climb??  into the attic' and therefore needs 'ETRE', I cannot convince myself re  the sentence "I  got up on my horse".

If you translated as he 'I mounted my horse" then J'ai monté mon cheval.

But visually and maybe literally "i got up on my horse"  is the difference between the dashing hero Lone Ranger style who really mounts and and the bad-guy Jack Palance who slowly 'gets up on his horse' and therefore needs time to "il est monté".

Ok I am being silly. But would you translate the english sentence "i got up on my horse " exactly as you would "I mounted my horse" ?  Sad if true because then in french you would lose something in the transaltion.

Vous l'avez rencontre a une soiree - you met him at a party

Vous les avez rencontre a une soiree - you met them at a party

Il nous a rencontre a une soiree - he met us at a party

But the moment you talk about yourselves it becomes a reflexive verb, rather than just a special case of the pronoun matching the verb case?

Nous nous sommes rencontres a une soiree - we met (each other) at a party