French language Q&A Forum

why is is J'habite Paris instead of Je habite Paris

Generally your example sentences are fun as well as useful. However this one seems like it comes from another era: “ Les femmes étaient occupées: les unes cuisinaient, les autres faisaient la vaisselle.”

Et toi, comment vas-tu?-I think this is how the correct version is

And you, how are you?

when to use Ce and Ça. Because i read that Ce is used only with etre. But that is not always the case. It is even followed by adjective and adverb

I tried and tested with some of the AI tools like chatgpt and gemini to confirm if the given long text is for A1 level but they both said it's above a2/b1 level due to vocabulary, synonyms and complex sentence structure. I tested becauase even i felt quite hard to grasp the meaning of most words and sentences.

Could someone clarify why imperfect is used in the above example? I thought it would be future (je viendra). The linked lesson is "Expressing continuing action with the imperfect tense in French" but this does not seem like a continuing action? And the rest of the sentence is in future tense as well. 

Thanks in advance! 

I am struggling to see why you have suggested one can use i or y but when I use the y in the answer of the verb, it is wrong.

In the first line, Le pourquoi du comment translates to the whys and hows. Shouldnt le pourquoi du comment be "The why of the how". Please explain the difference between these things. Merci 

How are these graded? My answers were mostly correct, maybe just getting the punctuation wrong or a few minor mistakes here and there. But it says I got 0 out of 60. Is it looking for letter-by-letter accuracy, including punctuation?