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Why is “j’ai toujours eu une passion pour les etoiles” in the passé compose and not in the Imparfait?  Does not “toujours” indicate it is an on-going situation and therefore it would be in the imparfait?  I still have so much trouble with using these tenses correctly.

Thanks.

I answered the "vampires in the morning question" (I have attempted to include the french text several times, but the website keeps reducing to a ">";  i guess it doesn't play nice with ">") and would like to better understand why. Am I correct in that the parts of speech for the "nous" are as follows: 1st stress pronoun, 2nd subject pronoun, 3rd reflexive pronoun? I was, prior to the quiz, under the impression that the first "nous" actually serves as a subject pronoun (auxiliary to the les vampires) and thus I omitted the 2nd "nous" in my answer. To help solidify my understanding, would the following be correct: > or does this construction only form with plural subjects? Merci d'avance!

Mon dictionnaire (un Robert) dit que l'adjectif "vidéo" est invariable, mais vous avez écrit "vidéos".  Je suis perplexe!

Why is this "jour" and not "journée"? 

Salut tout le monde ! 

I was asked to translate "tu sais ce qui est le plus efficace ?", j'y ai répondu "do you know who is the most efficient?" mais la bonne réponse est "do you Kong what is post efficient?".

J'ai du mal à comprendre pourquoi les deux ne sont pas corrects, j'apprécierais une explication. Merci beaucoup ! :)

Etait un peu difícil maís c'est bien pour apprendre. Merci beaucoup. 

Amenities 

Paula 

The lesson says that apparaitre and naitre and derivatives use etre in the passe compose.  But in the Test, the rabit disapeared from the hat uses avoir.

Penultimate prompt is in fact for the last sentence.

In the lesson on the partitive articles, they are listed as du, de l’, de la and des. When would you use the plural “des?” It seems that with uncountable nouns, you’re always talking about an amount or quantity of something, some sugar, some coffee, etc and would therefore always be singular. 

The example is given of something like “Tu achètes des épinards.” Here, “des” is used because “épinards” is a masculine plural noun. Is this the only time you use “des?” Otherwise, it’s really used as an indefinite article?

Thank you for any help!