French language Q&A Forum

In the explanation is the following sentence: Un millier de soldats sont venus.

I don't believe "thousand" is EVER followed by a verb. It is followed by a noun to indicate what is being counted.  Am I misunderstanding the intent of the explanation?

Which country this learning website was created in? I never heard the word "moquette"  which means carpet in this text.  I know the word "tapis".

Simone 

J'aimais l'ecouter.    I am going to listen... to him.

Why isn't this lui ecouter?  

Thanks

Is "ne...plus" a negative phrase in French? Why is 'plus' being used to represent part of a negative sentence?

Are these both correct and if so what is the difference in their meaning.  J’ai descendu rapidement.  Je suis descendu rapidement.  Merci

I also was confounded about this. Seeing that "bien entendu" usually means of "course", I also thought that parler should have been a participle, which would yield the translation "I had of course talked about this new position". But as I understand "bien entendu" in this case does not translate to "of course" and that "entendu" should be seen in conjuction with "parler" and not as part of the idiomatic expression "bien entendu". Do I make any sense?

I ask because you say "une personne', regardless of whether the person is male or female, whereas it seems that 'fan', on the contrary, follows the gender of the underlying individual - is that correct?