French language Q&A Forum

In a recent fill in the blank test, it asked for “pencil”. I’ve always been taught that it is “crayon “, but the test required “crayon [à ]. papier” ( sorry, my memory fails me about the à part ).  When did crayon become insufficient?   It was probably one of the first French words I learned! 

"un ogre grand comme une maison"

I've learned that adjectives that represent size (like grand, petit, gros, etc) should come before the noun. But in this sentence it is after the noun. Could someone please explain why?

When asked what does this mean, I entered the literal translation. 

Why would this not be acceptable as an answere?

Hello,

Please I want to know verb like " mettre en valeur" , consists of three parts, I want to know the name of the family of such verb?

Best regards

How can I say  "I give them all an apple and  "I gave them all an apple"

 "Je leur ai tous donnés une pomme" or je leur ai donnés à tous une pomme

" je leur tous donne une pomme or  je leur donne  à tous un pomme

I can not understand which of them are valid?

please help thank you in advance

I think "deuxième" is in the adjective list that can be placed before the noun.

But in the answer told me the below phrase is incorrect. Can you tell me why?

ma maison deuxième

I thought only the first letter of titles was capitalized in French. For example, in a catalogue, the title of the book "Gabrielle Roy: La détresse et l'enchantement" is written with only the proper name and the first word of the subtitle in capitals.

Hi If: Il a mal au genou is his knee hurts. Then how do you write He hurt his knee?