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A stroke certainly is 'un AVC', but as the order of initials indicates 'un AVC' cannot be 'un accident cardio-vasculaire'; it is 'un accident vasculaire crérébral'

Hello, 

Any tricks to guess the gender? Like for example, I heard somewhere that about 75% of the time nouns ending with 'e' will be of feminine gender. 

Merci d'advance! :)

Is it correct to say 'Il fallait qu'il annule son vacance' or should the 'annule' also be in the past tense? Merci.

You use "il/elle" for opinions and in specifying a particular item. But say "C'est une jolie robe."  

I don't get it.

How is Il fait bon aujourd'hui "It is warm" as your test implies?  Should it not be "Il fait chaud"?  I would think the translation should have been correct as "It is nice"  today for Il fait bon aujourd'hui.

I wrote, "il est quatre heures de l'après-midi." But the answer was marked wrong and used the 24 hr framework instead. I understand the answer it gave, but I just to make sure that my answer was also acceptable. 

I just put réussir à un examen in one of your tests and you marked the "à" as wrong although I was always taught this was correct.  I have checked in both Collins dictionary and in the Harraps dictionary and they both say réussir à un examen.  Please could you explain this?

Hi, can you explain why "I ate all the cakes" is not a correct translation of 

According to the lesson of negative form using partitive  articles: du, de la, de l' and des all become de or d' (in front of a vowel or mute h) in negative sentences using ne...pas, ne...jamais, ne...plus.

How do I know when to use ne...pas,  ne...jamais or ne...plus in the negative form based on the affirmative sentence?

How does this translate?