French language Q&A Forum

In the example, for actions already done, using the infinitive Passé:  "C'était très difficile, merci de m'avoir aidée."  It appears the usage demands an agreement (if the speaker in the case was female.)  Would it always be the case that agreement should be made?  

Lesson was: cette chanteuse a un ... kind of talent. How does certain translate to a kind of. Thanks. 

Does anyone know what that sentence means? In English, please.

It's the first sentence in this lesson.

Thanks.

Can someone please explain the logic behind the difference in adjective agreement w/ nouns after "de" in these two sentences, which both are found in the exercise: 

1) "les distances de sécurité"

2) "quelques minutes de gagnées"

Why is "securité" not in agreement w/ "les distances," while "gagnées" is in agreement w/ "quelques minutes?"

Beautiful island. Great listening opportunity. But the music is so loud, I'm having trouble hearing the narrator. Dommage. 

According to the notes, Jacques a descendu ... could mean he climbed down off the giant. I picked this answer, too, and it was wrong. Why? Thanks for your help. 

Je les ai jois (s?) que Maman a cueillie(s?)  How does it work here, where you have the fraises referenced by the les before the ai?  Do both of these need to agree?

During my Dashboard test, one of the questions was:

Nous ______  tous le mot "hypocondriaque". (We're all spelling the word "hypochondriac".)

HINT: Conjugate "épeler" (to spell) in Le Présent

Problem:  Trying to find"épeler" in the lesson page was an absolute nightmare. For the younger guys, it might be easy enough, but I'm 76.

Trying to find "épeler" didn't work, because it doesn't exist in the page.

Never mind. Marchons! Marchons!

Next, try to find the correct template for "épeler" in one of the following templates:

-é(-)er, -e(-)er, -eter, -eler, -Ê(-)ER [Note the change from lower case to upper case in the final template.]

My first attempt to find "épeler" in one of those templates stopped when I found  -e(-)er, which matches -eler

The next step was to find out how to conjugate it. I failed, because the only conjugated verb on the whole page is COMPLÉTER, which does not match the template (it matches -é(-)er).

Are we confused yet?

I followed the advice to omit any question if I was unsure about the answer.

BTW: The sharp-eyed will have noticed the template -eler actually exists near the end of my list of templates. So there are ambiguous templates.

Footnote: IMHO, there's far too much material on this page. It could be split into possibly four or five lessons. The lesson generates two questions in the micro-kwiz and 1 question in the dashboard quiz. The lesson demands at least 20 questions.

Attempts to compress the material result in statements such as:

Verbs ending in -É(-)ER such as célébrer, compléter, préférer, espérer..., as well as most verbs ending in -E(-)ER (except for -ETER and -ELER verbs) such as mener, lever, semer, élever... are semi-regular -ER verbs 

Compare with a lesson such as "Conjugate avoir in Le Présent (present tense)" which has only a fraction of the material, and is much easier to understand. Yet that lesson also generates two questions in the micro-kwiz and 1 question in the dashboard quiz.