French language Q&A Forum

 I’m confused. The lesson states:

“To express lacking [something], you use:

As you're literally saying I lack of [something], you never use partitive articles (du, de l', de la, des) here; i.e., Je manque du sucre.”           

So why not “Je manque de sucre?” The answer directly contradicts the Green highlighted guidance.

Bonjour, 

J'ai un cahier des exercices de preposition. Dans l'un d'exercice. Je dois traduire: "Do you (vous) have any lemon?" en francais. 

J'ai écrit, "est-ce que vous avez quelque citron ?"

Mais, le bon reponse est, "avez-vous de citron ?" 

Quel est la différence entre "quelque" et "de" to express any?

Merci en avance!

For the Kwiz question, "Which of the following adjectives are correctly placed?", I did NOT select "un oiseau joli" (because I was following the BAGS rule) - but Kwiziq marked this answer incorrect. Why? Isn't the correct version of this phrase "un joli ouiseau"? 

Hi,

Is "de" a partitive article by itself? That is, without being used as "du/de la/de l'"? I ask because of the following example

J'apprends le francais. Et moi est un debutant. Alors, Je cherches deux mots cet/ce. 

Why was "préférerais" marked wrong when it is what I believe to be the conditional, i.e. second "e" has an acute accent not a grave as you has said.

How does an adverb derive its masculin or feminine form? The adjective derives it's gender from the noun it is describing, but when the adjective is turned into an adverb, where does the gender come from?

 My instinct was to put a 'de' in front of 'differents' in this sentence. Can I do it?

Can I say "y compris" instead of parmi lesquells or dont to translate including?