French language Q&A Forum

In the test question: Le policier est descendu à la cave à la recherche de la bête féroce.

May I ask what the pronoun 'la' refer to in 'à la recherche'? and why recherche is not rechercher after the preposition 'à'?

Is the word "en" necessary in the above sentence? 

I think I put "au sud de France"... I'm translating directly from English, but is there a reason why "in the south of France" becomes "du sud de la France"

I don't understand why this sentence is indicative form?

For question or negation, I suppose we should use subjuctive form along with penser:

Tu penses qu'il soit bon pour elle?

Please help to explain it?

Merci.

Hi. Is there a mistake when you translate the sentence 'Yann passera par chez Laura après le travail' as 'Yann will pop by Laura' s place after work.' and not 

' Yann will pass by Laura's place after work. ' as it should translate. Omitting the' par' will mean 'pop by',. 

Please correct this as the many uses of passer / se passer / passer devant, par/ are confusing enough without this mistake.  Pekka J

Do not we have a vocabulary list of "more common" fruits on kwiziq?