French language Q&A Forum

to me it sounds like 

La planète mérite bien cet effort 

normally we use the "pire"(which means worse) for comparative the adjectives) but can we use it like that
 je nage pire que toi=I swimworse than you

does it works like that?

i cannot identify words which as masculine or feminine??

please help me!

Is it also correct to say:

Elle rappelle à Alain sa sœur 

I am getting this word order in Reverso translation and Google Translate for many examples I made up with the same structure. I know Google Translate is not always reliable, but I have also seen other examples that seem to indicate the word order above is used as well as the one used in the lesson. Thank you.

Allo! I'm wondering if you put the determinant only if there isn't an adjective? So if I say "il est policier", there is no determinant, and if I say "il est un policier courageux" I do? Thank you!

Merci d'avoir écrit cette histoire palpitant! Plus, svp!!

What's the rationale for using 'jeunes maries' (sorry, doesn't do accent in the boxes) and not 'nouveaux maries' here? 

Why is "de vernis" used in this sentence and "du vernis" in the following sentence ? I thought it was a masculine noun, ie du vernis