French language Q&A Forum

the statement was just je....... rentre, as there was nothing(chez,dansetc) after rentre i used avoir but it was wrong, so why is there sometimes nothing after rentrer when used with etre?please

Could you add some clarification re: wedding bells, baseball cap, tennis racquet, door knob, golf club, soccer ball, soccer field, sunglasses, Christmas tree, water tank, bus stop, fire truck, etc.

By your lesson, these should all be “à” (what something is designed for), but in fact this whole genre is “de”.

Specifically, why is it “boîte à bijoux” and not “boîte de bijoux” ? Other than convention.

Clearly, these are not just a few exceptions, but an entire class of compound nouns (open form, noun+noun) that is not covered in the lesson.

Thank you.

From the fourth to the seventh. Why is it de quatre au sept and not du quatre? From the explanation it seemed clearly to be du in the lesson. What did I get wrong in this particular case? Thanks. 

Sorry, Bescherelle, La conjugation pour tous, states protégerait, so i’m going with the bible on this one.

I read somewhere that ne ... pas and ne ...point were the first negative constructions in the evolution of the French language. I can just imagine someone trekking through the woods in Old French times and saying, "Not another step."  Or a tired monk in some scriptorium copying over an illegible text and saying, "Not another period."

How do you remember whether to use de or à after a verb. 

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

What do you mean by "like"?

"Verbs like jouer or crier become je jouerai ou je crierai.

Hi,

I was wondering why there was no liason between voudrais + une, or veux+câlin?

thanks in advance

Salut! Je m'appelle Alyssa et je viens de États-Unis.