French language Q&A Forum

Why is de longeur considered incorrect if it included as an option in lesson?

How would I say "Someone you can trust." ? 

Quelqu'un on peut faire confiance ?

It would be useful if there is a button at the end of each exercise which enables me to straight to the next lesson rather than first going back to the library. This applies to these writing lessons as well as the reading, fill in the blanks etc

Hi!

There's been some issues with the tests again! I think you know what kind of problem it is right now, because it happens quite occasionally and frequently, so I'll leave you to figure it out!

With pleasure,

Christophe

Hi

I have a few questions regarding this exercise:

1. The phrase 'je me suis sentie méprisée' - I was a little confused about whether to make 'senti' or 'méprisé' agree with the female speaker.  In fact I got it wrong, as I see that both should agree.  Could you explain the rule, or do you have a lesson I could look at for this?

2. what is the meaning of 'de l'instrumentalisation du vote barrage'?

3. what is the meaning of 'voter blanc'?  I have a good idea but would be very interested to hear an explanation.

Thankyou once again, dudes of Lawless French for an interesting dictée, with some good new vocab.

Megan

I love how the audio has a female voice saying each of the feminine nouns, and a male voice for the masculine ones.  I expect that actually will help us to remember the gender for these listed body parts if we play it a few times -- thank you! 

No two ways about it, listening practice is everything. Took me a while to get my lug (ear to an English person) around this dictation but pleased with the results.

What does récompense mean, I for one thought it meant rewarding.

Why is 

grandes quilles de bois acceptable but not grande boule de bois?

In the second example ‘grande’ is corrected to ‘grosse’.

Both are describing ‘big’ as in: 

-eight big wooden skittles

-a big wooden ball

Why 'du' in 'la demeur du Capitaine Haddock' instead of 'de' as in fan de Tintin and Château de Cheverny?  In general, when I interpret something as possessive, for example Tintin's fan or Cheverny's castle, I use 'de'.  So, I am puzzled about the use of 'du' for Captain Haddock's house.  I get this wrong a lot, so if you can point me to a grammar lesson or give me some guidance, I would greatly appreciate it.  Thanks, in advance.