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Sable D.A1Kwiziq community member

Referring to one's name

I take issue with this. In the very real sense 'vous vous appelez...' is 'you call yourself...'. Not 'votre nom est...' - 'your name is'.

What I am CALLED - how I refer to myself or how others do - is not what my name is. They are two very different things, and in my family (and throughout many Russian-speaking families - though my family is English) people have names and then the diminutive or 'nickname' form.

For example, my grandfather's name is Charles. He is 'called' Ted.

Therefore, why is 'you call yourself...' an incorrect translation?

Asked 3 years ago

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Angela D.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Harry Potter

It would have been helpful to those of us who have never read Harry Potter to have words which come from the book in the helpful hints section.

Asked 4 years ago

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Libby A.B2Kwiziq community member

Stress pronoun

Having just looked at another lesson on stress pronouns I thought in this case the stress pronoun came second: Tes amis et toi...???

Asked 4 years ago

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Abdou A.C1Kwiziq community member

Bonjour! Est-ce que le ne explétif est obligatoire ici ? j'ai choisi l'option sans le ne explétif et ça n'a pas été accepté!

Asked 5 years ago

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Pippa G.B2Kwiziq community member

Using imperfect or passe compose??

When I was young... I use etais but to say he was promoted you don't say il etait promu but il a ete promu and I don't understand why you use this and not the imperfect. Please explain! I can't add accents on this so forgive me they are missing

Asked 3 years ago

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Hasan D.A1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

I can not clearly understand the verbs used with "de" and à

I have 2 questions
1-
can I use indirect object or direct object before the verb for "penser à" when I talk about people?
and what is the rule for
Je pense à Lui(tom)
je lui pense or je le pense?? (does it work with any of them?)
2-how can I inverted imperatif with penser à for people
pense à moi or pense moi (whicj one is true?)

Asked 5 years ago

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Karen B.C1Kwiziq community member

Excessive use of exclamation marks

Does anyone else find an over use of the exclamation marks ? I don’t take off marks if I don’t put in as many as given in the answers. Is this a particular French thing?

Asked 1 year ago

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McCain M.A2Kwiziq community member

I used the work bateaux for the plural of boats. The quiz marked that answer as wrong and said the correct answer is batteaux with (2) T's. why?

Asked 4 years ago

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G B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Lettres vs les Lettres Classiques

I see that les Lettres and just Lettres (without the 'les') are both accepted as correct answers but then further on the 'les' cannot be left off when used with 'Lettres Classiques'. Is there a rule governing this usage ?

Asked 5 years ago

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Eldra C.B1Kwiziq community member

C'est une robe courte avec des fleurs roses.C'est une robe courte avec des fleurs roses = It is a short dress with pink flowers.

What is 'It is a short dress with pink roses'?

Is it 'C'est une robe courte avec des roses roses.' ?

Asked 5 years ago

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