French language Q&A Forum

test question asked for "I feel nothing". I put "Je me sens rien" and it was marked incorrect. The correct answer was "Je sens rien". Please explain.

Why is it une enfance très heureuse, and not une très heureuse enfance ? I thought heureux always came before the noun it modifies ?

Bonjour,

Comment ça se fait que.... and Comment se fait-il que....

Are the above not interchangeable?  I keep getting marked wrong when I use the second one.

Merci, Julia

The expression 'au détriment de' does not in this case mean 'to the detriment of', since the Old French vocabulary itself as not been harmed. The expression is better translated 'at the cost of', since it refers to the replacement of a certain amount of older vocabulary by neologisms formed directly or indirectly from classical languages.

Can someone explain the use of "à" in these two sentences: 

Elle se trouva confrontée aux limites de l'époque (why is it used to mean "with" in this sentence?)

Mais cette femme à la forte personnalité (also meaning with?)

"Qu'est-ce que c'est?" (what is that?) is one of the first things a beginner in French learns. Now that I am moving from A2 to B1, I learned that "Qu'est-ce que..." is the question form to use when the "what" is the object of the sentence. I think the verb "to be" is throwing me off. Could someone explain to me how "what" is the object of the sentence in question like "what is that?" 

I think I understand WHAT to do if I need to choose an accent mark on a quiz, but I cannot do it correctly.  Could you please explain explain it very thoroughly, step by step?  It doesn't let me hold down the letter, or else I don't understand how to do it.  I am getting answers wrong only for that reason, but I can't seem to correct it.  Am I supposed to go to the choices before or after I type the letter that needs the accent mark or something completely different?  Thank you.

Hello. 

Could you also say

"Je vous souhaite une belle/bonne journée"? 

If the expression is "faire exprès DE", why is the contraction "ne l'ont pas and not n'en ont pas'?