French language Q&A Forum

Lots of the translation inferred the conditional ie. "ils nageaient jusqu'à la bouée" , "They used to swim ..." your translation "They would swim up to the bouy".  They would swim..., should it not be "Ils nageraint.  This is extremely confusing

Le mot "printannière" n'est pas "printanière"?

The lesson says:  - We use the auxiliary verb être conjugated in a compound tense*, followed by the past participle of the verb.   However, all the examples use avoir, not etre.    I'm assuming etre is a mistake.

Did a quiz, apparently answered wrong, and am now very confused.

The question: Elle ________ monté le poney de Jérémie et il a été très docile.

I went with "a monté". The quiz says the correct is "est monté".

Going by the Q&A, it seems like my answer was correct.  I am stumped in two ways. 

First, the Q&A says that avoir followed by the past participle is used for getting on a horse. This is a (pro)noun followed by a direct object. The lesson uses the example a "a monté mon cheval". I'm struggling to see why the verb auxiliary would switch based on who owns the horse. 
Second, assuming I have the first part wrong someone how and être is the correct auxiliary, should the correct answer not be "est montée"? The subject is feminine. 

Hi, Just to inform you that you have two copies of the same video clipping in this lesson.