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James S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Syntax or quirk?

Bonjour à tous - Why is there always a space between the last word of the sentence and the punctuation mark? Is that a French syntax thing or a quirk of this website? Thank you !

Asked 3 years ago

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Babit L.A2Kwiziq community member

Is the sentence correct...Aujourd'hui, elle part en voyage à la plage.Aujourd'hui, elle part en voyage à la plage.Is this sentence correct?Kindly provide an explanation for its accuracy.

Asked 5 years ago

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h. s.A1Kwiziq community member

Use of e in passé composé but not in Présent

We use extra e for féminin elle in passé composé. Why not in Présent tense.

elle s'est réveillée. (Passé composé)il/elle se réveille (Présent)

I am confused. Please help me out.

Asked 4 years ago

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chris w.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

He had more experience than I did'He had more experience than I did'is translated as ' Il avait plus d'experience que moi' I think that should be a translation of ' He had more experience than me'. Whereas 'Il avait plus d'experience que j'avais' which may not be grammatical or good french (is it? )but does not convert 'than I did', to 'than me'. This kind of approximation in translation whilst necessary in real life is not helpful in the learning process as we are having to guess at what you want .

Asked 4 years ago

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Supriya S.B1Kwiziq community member

Question making in French

Si j'écris “ pourquoi il a soif ?”

Correct ou incorrect

Asked 5 years ago

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Brian E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Context for this tense

I’ll just echo the suggestion to add the context (e.g. as described by Chris) to this lesson. Prior to reading the context I was thinking “we don’t even use this tense in English”. After reading it I realised that of course we do use it, and I could understand where it could be meaningfully used.

Asked 4 years ago

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Marylee D.A1Kwiziq community member

We are from Marseilles

I am always confused about when to use the article le la l’...

We are from (de). does or does not need a la or a du (de le)

Asked 5 years ago

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APOSTOLOS K.C1Kwiziq community member

Bold are bit tricky

Bonjour!

I think that the bolds to the above paragraphe on conjugation is a bit tricky. I am corying it below

je me / m'

tu te / t'

il, elle, on se / s' + verb conjugated in the right form

nous nous

vous vous

ils, elles se / s

"Je, il, elle, on" must not be in bold. Because they are bold I thought that I could use them in the reflexive form.

Merci

Asked 4 years ago

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helen d.C1Kwiziq community member

impersonal expressions

can impersonal expressions like il est possible que, il est certain que etc become c'est possible , c'est certain que etc. C'est seems more logical here than il.

Asked 5 years ago

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Robin B.C1Kwiziq community member

comment on the excellence of this topic

Great topic (though I had to Google "Brabant")!

Asked 5 years ago

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