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Good, better, best(bon, meilleur, le/la meilleure).  How is "ma meilleure amie", translated as "my best friend" distinguisablle from "my better friend" except by convention?  I.e. one would never say yare my better friend.

Bonjour, 

Hello I was wondering for one of your example sentences you use le  not sur why not sur?

On aime aller se  balader  le weekend.

Thanks

Nicole

In the test for this lesson there is a sentence "Tu arriveras d'ici lundi"  and the answer is  "You'll get here by Monday.".

Isn't this a wrong translation?  The sentence should be "you will arrive BY Monday(d'ici lundi). To say "you will get HERE by Monday" should be "Tu y arriveras d'ici lundi" or cringe "Tu  arriveras ICI d'ici lundi. " 

Unless the verb arriver without a destination defaults to "here".

I used "car" for "because" and it was marked wrong.  Is there a certain situation we need to use "parce que" instead of "car"?

To piggyback on the question below, sort of, I have heard & read the use of garder to describe babysitting children, par exemple: "Nous gardons les enfants ici." This obviously doesn't mean that they are physically keeping possession of the kids there, like prisoners (although the kids may think so). Is this one of those instances where context is everything or is it incorrect usage?

I don't think there's any way one could know them unless they had already been taught to the learner. I found it a bit unfair, but I suppose the grading is subjective and as long as one learns something, who cares.