French language Q&A Forum

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.

linked youtube video unavailable, do you have an alternative? Cannot see title of youtube video.

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

It really sounds to me that the speaker is saying ``Sophie, au va....`` I know it doesn`t make sense but it really sounds like that`s what he`s saying. Can you please check?

I havent been in lawless for a longbime and my level has dropped, should i start again?