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Cher H.A2Kwiziq community member

brûla pendant huit jours. = burned for eight days.L'huile, qui ne devait brûler qu'un jour, brûla pendant huit jours.The oil, which was supposed to burn only one day, burned for eight days.I have a question in one of the quiz of this lesson, I don't have problem with the use of qui. I just want to know what tense 'brûla' is in. It isn't passe compose nor imperfect. I can't figure out what tense it is.

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Jing T.A1Kwiziq community member

Singapour - article ou non?

My understanding is that countries like Singapore, which are counted as city-states, are without an article? So I can say Je veins de Singapour?

Merci!

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Vanessa B.C1Kwiziq community member

Where to lookup unknown words?

When doing these exercises I use the Library Index to search for translations of words/phrases I am not familiar with.

In this case I searched for "magical" and the result shown was féerique. This however was marked wrong!!

I also searched for "pitch tent" and could not find a result for pitch but got a result unrelated to tents, so searched for tent and found to put up a tent = "installer une tente"

This too was marked wrong and instead "planter" was the word used. However planter is not even in the Library index.

What is recommended as the best resource for definitions for these exercises so that we can find the correct translation?

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Tom A.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Noun with pronoun

Why is 'Anna' immediately followed by 'elle' ?

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Steve G.A2Kwiziq community member

French Kwiziq learning

Why oh why don't you have an app?

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karen t.A1Kwiziq community member

can't determine what the subject of the lesson is suppose to be

I don't understand. I'm given a lesson on pronouns but then most of the test is on conjugation of verbs I have not heard of before.

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Ursi C.B1Kwiziq community member

B2 Reflexive + direct object (double pronouns)Nous nous l'imaginons blonde aux yeux bleus.

Would it also be correct to say:

Nous nous l'imaginons blonde avec les yeux bleus?

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D. A.C1Kwiziq community member

Ne explétif after ne penser que

I put ...ne sois intending it to be the ne explétif. And it marked it as wrong. So I got the subjunctive bit right at least. Why is it not the ne explétif?

Thanks

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i. l.C1Kwiziq community member

toute or toutes

In "nos premières vacances toute seules", why is it "toute" and not "toutes", to go with "seules"?

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Abdula M.A1Kwiziq community member

Inversion of question in the conditional tense

Is this the inversion of - Could you wait for me ?

"M'attendriez-vous "