French language Q&A Forum

For this exercise, A Thanksgiving gift, I have searched for turkey, and according to Google, there is dinde, the feminine for turkey and dindon, for masculine. I know in English they don't have genders. My question is, should we put the correct gender in French?

Thank you!

Why does the adjective in this case come prior to the noun: 

Lisa est une très bonne vendeuse.

But in this case (also describing goodness or quality) it comes after:

Maurice est un professeur excellent.

Does this indicate that the BAGS guideline doesn't apply to the adjective excellent?

Here's a famous mnemonic tip to help you remember adjectives that come before the noun: you can call them the BAGS adjectives, which stand for

Beauty (joli/beau)

Age (vieux/jeune)

Goodness (gentil/méchant).

1. Is 'piquer' a valid verb in French? Can one say 'piquer l’intérêt'?

Why was it necessary to use the 'passe compose' of falloir here? 

Referring to: j'ai semé de nouvelles graines que j'ai recouvertes de compost 

Someone once shared a list of French verbs (probably from the lawless French) which take the preposition 'de' to denote "to do something with/by another thing", where intuitively one would want to use 'avec'. For example: 'La ville est entourée de collines.' Here, the natural translation is 'The city is surrounded by hills. Along the same line: 'Le jardin est recouvert de neige.' --> The garden is covered with snow!

Can anyone please share that list here also?

Also this is how i am trying to memorize the verb conjugations of regular and irregular verbs

Let me know if its ok or not 

For example in cuire 

As its irregular nature 

It has endings with je cuiS. tu cuiS and il cuiT

Opposite to regular verb parle

With conjugation of je parlE, tu parleS & il parlE. 

Please correct me if am wrong.

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I learned the version above years ago. Is the “vous vous” form of the question most common now? Or less formal?