Mélanie joue plus que Karine aux cartes. which is marked wrong seems to me to be just an inversion of Melanie joue aux cartes plus que Karine which is correct. Is this just one of those things the French dont do, or is there an underlying reason why the first version is wrong, please?

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Olga B.C1Kwiziq community member

on and nous

In writing French, when do you use "on" and when do you use "nous" ?

Asked 5 years ago

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Kay C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

agreement in gender

Two questions in the B1 tests and I may be dim but I am clearly missing something as I am not sure what the "superieur(e)/inferieur(e) à ) agrees with!

Notre cuisine est supérieure à celle de ce restaurant.

and

Son (Her) travail est inférieur à celui de son frère. "Restaurant" and "frère" are both masculine, "cuisine" and "Son (her) travail" feminine. I left the "e" off in the Notre cuisine sentence and put it on in the Son travail sentence. Help!

Asked 4 years ago

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Jessie J.B2Kwiziq community member

Jonathan, lui, rentre en CP

Why does "CP" correspond to "first grade"? How are French grade levels named?

Asked 4 years ago

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Maarten K.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Shampoo and shampoo bottle

Checking a couple of points

Both 'shampoing' and 'shampooing' are formally accepted and used spellings, but the latter is being 'corrected' to the former here.

A 'bottle' of shampoo is mostly advertised and sold as 'un flacon' - ' j'ai fini le flacon ' is not accepted as correct though.

https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9S1514-A

https://www.carrefour.fr/p/shampoing-cheveux-normaux-carrefour-soft-3560070965137

https://www.e.leclerc/fp/dercos-psolution-shampooing-traitant-keratoreducteur-3337875787222

Asked 1 year ago

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Erika P.A1Kwiziq community member

Transliteration for "avec"

Good day! My question is for this example: "On ne doit pas parler la bouche pleine." (People mustn't speak with their mouths full.).

Why is there no "avec"? Is this because it isn't meant to be transliteral?

Asked 5 years ago

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Aaron G.C1Kwiziq community member

Les cloches apportent?

Salut! Je suis juste curieux, qu'est-ce que ça veut dire précisément que "les cloches apportent les œufs...?" Est-ce que ces cloches de Pâques deviennent vivantes et alors apportent les œufs, ou est-ce que la sonnerie des cloches font apparaître les œufs dans les jardins? Ou est-ce que c'est quelqu'autre chose entièrement? C'est fascinant! Merci beaucoup!

Asked 4 years ago

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Mark P.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Problems with about 50% of playbacks

Conjugate verbs (+ être) in the pluperfect tense in French (Le Plus-que-Parfait)

"Elle était déjà partie quand je suis arrivé"

I have a playback problem... the first time I play this it is fine but second and subsequent omit "elle".. if I go to another phrase and come back, it still happens and need to reload the page to get back to the full recording.. this seems to be happening in about 50% of the playbacks on this page.. the others are absolutely fine and seems no rhyme or reason.. happens on other pages as well.. don't think it is my iPad.

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