French language Q&A Forum

I'm curious to know why it's not "J'ai besoin DU temps pour réfléchir" in this sentence?  What happens to the definite article "le" for temps?

why is 'écossais[e]" the only nationality not capitalized?

Faillir de (rater, for example) is being used.  I have no problem with this usage, but wonder why presque is not used at all  -- e.g., j'ai presque rate as an alternative to j'ai failli rate.  Just curious.  Thanks!

I understood that the par or devant were essentially the same - both mean to pass by something.  I answered passer devant in this questions just to use a different way of expressing the same meaning.  It was, however, said to be an error and passer par was the correct answer.  Please explain.  Thanks.

"Nous sommes partis en avance juste au cas où" 

This is still being marked as incorrect (because it contains the word 'juste').

I have reported it.

The French don't drink "pintes" because they don't use the imperial system. They drink "chopes". Une chope de bière.

Bonjour !! 

I am new here 

Please tell me the meaning of peut 

Can we say "Merci de regarder cette video" ?

Il faut toujours essayer ... avant de juger. I used soi since I read this to be a universal self where soi is used. Why is it soi-même? What’s the rule to differentiate when using On to mean universal, we the people, etc? I used soi in a previous question using On and it was correct. Thanks.