The exercise gives " c'était la boulangerie de Madame Poitier." I tried "Il était...." because we're discussing a specific building. (The grammar lesson on c'est & il/elle est suggests using "il/elle" for specific things). Is there some wriggle room on this one or was I just plain wrong?

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Barbara O.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

no adjective

Hi - Could someone explain to me why the line "he told me that he needed a new raincoat" is translated into French without the adjective "new"? (..il m'a dit qu'il avait besoin d'un imperméable). Thanks.

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Richa S.A0KwizIQ community member

why is the french accent so different if compared to the english accent....

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S. B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Use of "à" to mean "with"I don't understand the use of "à" in the phrase "une grande église romane à clocher carré" to mean a church with a clock tower. This does not seem like "une tasse à thé" or "une machine à laver." Why not "une église avec un clocher carré"?

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Stephanie S.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

adverbs with compound verbs

For the verbs that go in the middle of compound verbs, is that always the case? I can't say "j'ai mangé beaucoup "?

'Vite' sounds strange to me in that position--"j'ai vite couru". Even Google Translate used "couru vite", although it's certainly not the final arbiter of good French :P

I'm also having a hard time finding an example with bientôt. Maybe "je vais bientôt arriver"? That's another one I would intuitively reverse--"je vais arriver bientôt ".

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Maria S.C1KwizIQ community member

Cuisinions vs cuisions ??

Cuisinions vs cuisions ? Thought cuisions was subjunctive

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Carol W.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Tu aimes le violet, c'est or il est

It is so opinion on specific thing, so lesson says il est. But get marked wrong, is it because it is about colour? But is still a specific colour not colour in general

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Vikki W.C1KwizIQ community member

Subjunctive and tenses in other clauses

I'm even more confused now. You say that you use the present subjunctive when the time frame of the 2 clauses are contemporaneous. It seems to me that in English the tenses are the same eg "I started" and "everybody warned" are both in the past tense. However, in the french translation it shows "commence" in present (subjunctive) and "tout le monde m'avait prévenu" in the pluperfect. Can you help please

Thanks

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A. E.A1KwizIQ community member

Why is the example: Oh I watched that too yesterday, but in the test became, I watched that yesterday too, thus failing the test?

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