French language Q&A Forum

the lesson says: To express after + -ing / after having + past participle in French, you use the same following structure:

ATTENTION:
Use the same auxiliary as in compound tenses like Le Passé Composé. 

But all the examples are using avoir. Could you expand a little about using être in this situation? Thanks!

Que dire de la neige qui est  ------ ?

1) tombé 

2) tombée

Hi, I saw this test somewhere and it the right answer was 1 "tombé".

but, I think 2 is correct because la neige is feminie!, help please 

"Give birth" - why not "donner naissance"?

I'm a little confused about what it means in the article when it says that "le jour suivant" or "le jour précédent" have to be used "on their own". Does that mean that they can't be directly followed by a noun or a verb, or just that you can't specify time of day by adding "au matin"? The section following where it says they have to be used on their own mentions that you can combine them with nouns (ex: "le jour suivant son arrestation"), so I'm not entirely clear on the "only on their own" part. Hopefully I'm not just missing something obvious. Thanks in advance for your help!

Why is "I really feel like an ice cream !" "J'ai vraiment envie d'une glace !" in the past tense? Isn't the statement in the present tense as it is happening now?

Just curious..would ‘I see that you’re also staying tonight’ translate differently than ‘..staying tonight also’? That is 'restez aussi ce soir' vs 'restez ce soir aussi'

Why can't you say 

Dis-moi quetu fais le weekend.

Dis-moi ce que tu fais le weekend.

Bonjour.  Comment corrigez-vous les fautes d’orthographe dans la dictée ?  On perd un point avec chaque faute ?  On commence avec 65 points ?  Si c’est le cas, pourquoi ?  C’est le nombre de mots ?

Merci de votre explication.