French language Q&A Forum

Why is "Je lui envoye une massage" instead of "Je l'envoye une massage?" Thanks

in the beginning of the text, could you not say, 'Je travaillais pour une organisation internationale'?  it goes on say 'développions' rather than 'nous avons dévelopé...

Can qui be used instead of ce qui in the sentence 

ce qui lui donnait les joues une douce teinte rosée 

I don't understand the tense of this verb "venus" used in this sentence

Un festival de courts métrages venus des quatre coins de la planète.  

A festival of short films came from 4 corners of the planet.

Could you add some clarification re: wedding bells, baseball cap, tennis racquet, door knob, golf club, soccer ball, soccer field, sunglasses, Christmas tree, water tank, bus stop, fire truck, etc.

By your lesson, these should all be “à” (what something is designed for), but in fact this whole genre is “de”.

Specifically, why is it “boîte à bijoux” and not “boîte de bijoux” ? Other than convention.

Clearly, these are not just a few exceptions, but an entire class of compound nouns (open form, noun+noun) that is not covered in the lesson.

Thank you.

We were asked to translate "I always knew."  Seems to me this is an ongoing action in the past.  A description of the past.  I think this should be "Je savais toujours."  "J'ai su" is more like "I found out." 

Why is « Il » referring to Tom Cruse? Why isn’t it referring to the film that Julie is watching ?

Can "en hiver" also be translated as "during the winter"/"in wintertime" or would I have to say "pendant l'hiver" or something else?  The translation "in winter" doesn't seem like common phrasing it seems almost like the beginning of a scientific statement and I'm bound to over-translate it.