French language Q&A Forum

In this example: “une blonde comme le soleil fille” I said it was correct. But I think it means, in English, “a blonde like the sun girl”. If so would the correct answer have been “Une blonde comme la fille soleil” ? Thanks.

Why is  "Ils ont été" and not "Ils étaient" ? These answers for were baffle me. They have been - They were, or are they interchangeable ?

Note also that you use qu'est-ce que if it appears at the start but quoi at the end.  

:: This sentence is a little confusing, do you think this is more clear 

Note;

you start a question with "qu'est-ce que"; in order words, "qu'est-ce que" only appears at the start of a question. However, you end a question with "quoi"; in order words, "quoi" only appears at appears at the end of a question.   

Example

Qu'est-ce que tu fais?
Notice how the sentence starts with "qu'est-ce que"

Tu fais quoi?

Notice how the sentence ends with "quoi"

Why does, "I think that I am ready" not trigger the subjunctive and make it "je pense que je sois prête"?

Why is it not "les champignons pointent le bout de leurs nez" to make the possessive adjective plural?  I have a French spelling guide that shows "reconnaitrais" with an accent circonflex over the first "i".  Which is correct?  

Bonjour,

Why isn't vivre considered as a verb of state unlike naître and the others?

Merci :) 

Why does the example of manquer have this example: “Jacques a raté son train”?

I never know what to do when I've been writing informally and suddenly find that I have to use first person plural pronouns other than the subject pronoun.  How would you say something like "We fed our pets" or "They will find us if we stay here" in casual French?

I'm trying to pay attention to where the s ending one word is pronounced or not when followed by a word starting with a vowel, is there a rule I can memorise? For instance in the examples here it is not sounded in 'tu has une soeur' but in both of 'Ils ont un...' and '...des yeux'