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Çağrı Y.A2Kwiziq community member

"dans la" VS "à la"Les parents sont dans la poste.

Les parents sont à la poste.

What is the difference?

Asked 6 years ago

M H.B1Kwiziq community member

Is there a liaison in the sentence Je vais à la poste?I read that a liaison is "forbidden" before the letter a, yet I have heard it used on a french study program for the foreign services. What is the correct usage? Thank you.

Asked 10 years ago

Ayushi B.A2Kwiziq community member

Can we use limonade also for citronade?

Asked 7 years ago

Wyn Ron C.B1Kwiziq community member

Imparfait vs. Passé composéI have having problems figuring out when I need to use imparfait in my conversations. For example, I understand that imparfait is used when expressing a thought that took place in the past. So does that mean every thought that I had in the past is put into imparfait?

Asked 8 years ago

Cheryl N.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

How do you say this in French, please?: "she could have had"could; should; would ! .. these compound constructions are a little difficult. What are the rules, if any, please?

Asked 10 years ago

Nguher K.A0Kwiziq community member

J'habite au Nigeria dans la capital,Abuja.

Asked 9 years ago

Sharon R.A1Kwiziq community member

Salut! S'il vous plait ,Is this sentence correct?' Salut! Si'vous plait ,Is this sentence correct?' Je vais leur demander que quel chose? I am going to ask them something?

Asked 8 years ago

Ha W.C1Kwiziq community member

Avoir + Transitive & Etre + IntransitiveSo in general, when a verb is both transitive and intransitive, we should use avoir with the transitive version, and when applicable, use etre with the intransitive version?

Asked 9 years ago

nicole r.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

noun genders with countries

hi,

I took the test and i understand that Switzerland is feminine but why is there a masculine pronoun ils at the beginning? ils detesent la suisse. Shouldn't it be elles not ils?

thanks

nicole

Asked 3 years ago

David C.C1Kwiziq community member

Hi, In the examples above, 'j'aime Paris' means 'I lové Paris'. If 'j'aime beaucoup Paris' means 'I like Paris a lot', them how do you say plain old 'I like Paris'?

Asked 7 years ago

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