French language Q&A Forum

Why is it that when you want to say new before the consonants, you say 'nouveau' but when you want to say new hotel, you say "nouvel hotel" because 'h' is a not a vowel

On the resume can I use masculine instead of feminine

or is there an acceptable gender neutral?

Just a note, when there are tips like the quote below, though this is could be very helpful, the fancy grammar terms without any down to earth french examples right after would make a lot of new students just give up without realizing an example is in the article somewhere. Maybe consider adding examples right after it, at least to save time?

Thanks for the fantastic website! 

"Compound tense : en + [auxiliary] + [past participle] + [number]"

I have a question in these two sentences: 1. Tu ne me le donnes pas. 2. Tu ne la lui écris pas. What is the correct order of indirect pronoun and object pronoun? In the first sentence, it seems that the order is indirect(me) + object(le), but in the second one, it becomes object(la) + indirect(lui). Is there anything wrong here? Or both are correct, that this order doesn’t matter?

The suggested answer of this sentence is 'C'est la plus jeune sœur de ma mère'. 

Is it also correct to translate it as ' Elle est la sœur la plus jeune de ma mère' ?

The ce vs. il/elle question is driving me crazy!  I've created a detailed flowchart and I still get them wrong.  Why is this "C'est"?  

"Elle" is used when expressing an opinion of a specific thing, here, a school.  Your own example uses, "Tu aimes mon pull?  Oui, il est très beau."  How is this any different?????

Could you just confirm whether, as a woman, I should be writing

Je suis allée..

Je suis partie... etc..

Thanks

I would guess that 'j'espere que' take the subjunctive, even when the clause refers to the future.  But the clause is actually in the future!  So does this mean that the future trumps a subjunctive? (I understand that there is no future-subjenctive)