French language Q&A Forum

Why is the first sentence in imparfait - he only went on one business trip?

Why is the second sentence in passe compose - she had tears in her eyes all day long?

quand Samuel était en voyage d'affaires à Bruxelles. 

j'ai eu les larmes aux yeux toute la journée !

How do I know if a word like les Lunettes is masculine or feminine?

Also do you have library of words I can look up to check if I am unsure instead of me guessing?

Is there any way I can email you to discuss a few things please

TThe question was write 5.30 am, I used 24 hour clock and marked wrong, why?

Looking at this sentence - 'je sais comment pousser les gens à bout' - I am wondering why the word comment is there? I am used to seeing savoir followed directly by the infinitive.

Why was "il ferait du soleil" marked as partially correct (as opposed to
"il ferait beau")?

The question was how would you write 78,005 in English.  It didn’t say how do you write this decimal number.  I wondered if it was but chose to go with thousands and not a decimal number because it was not specified.

"Descendre de" rule

This may have a simple answer, but if 'de' becomes du or des when followed by le or les, why would the correct response on the quiz be: Elle descend de l'avion rather than Elle descend du l'avion?

Can I write "Je les tiens précieusement" instead?

One of the test questions from another lesson:

Je suis sûre que nous ________ ce livre.

answer: aimerons

Why do we use Le Futur instead of subjonctif present? Do we use Subjonctif present automatically after 'que'?