French language Q&A Forum

I wrote "où nous avons bu de bon vin" even though I thought I heard "où nous avons bu du bon vin". I was thinking about the adjective coming before the noun. I asked my AI, which said that I was grammatically correct, but that your version with "du" was more in line with contemporary speech. Does that agree with your reasoning?

Why isn't "se rencontrer" suggested as an option for "to meet" in addition to "se retrouver" and "se rejoindre" in the sentence "...on se retrouvera à la bibliothèque..."?

Mais pourquoi , on dit pas : je ne veux pas venir ce soir ?

No mention is made in the lesson for verbs ending in uire (conduits, traduire, construire) that when conjugating the verb construire, the first R is dropped in nous constuisons and vous constuisez. Is it also dropped in ils/elles constuisent or does it stay as in construisent? Does this also apply for détruire?

The lesson says "j'ai mal, tu as mal" etc. In a test the question was to translate "Antoine's shoulders hurt". I wrote "Il a mal a les epaules" and it came up wrong, saying i should have written il fait mal a les epaules" (sorry it wouldn't let me put accents on)

Pourquoi dit-on 'j'habite Orléans" et non pas

"J'habite à Orléans"?

Qu’est-ce qu’on a ajouté (what was added) au participe passé, allé, quand le sujet a changé dans le tableau précédent? 

Qu’est ce qu’on ajoute?

Il est allé - masculin singulier

rien

Ils sont allés- masculin pluriel

    allé + les accords

Elle est allée- féminin singulier

allé + les accords

Elles sont allées- féminin pluriel

allé + 

In number 6, I submitted the phrase “pour fabriquer des” and it was corrected to “pour fabrique les,” but in the paragraph above it contradicts that correction. Which is right?

I have come across the following sentence in a novel that I’m reading: ‘On avait laissé dans un coin une applique allumée, parce que la lumière des bougies eût été insuffisante.’ I would like to know why the subjunctive is being used here, because I have always been told that parce que is followed by the indicative. The novel in question dates from the late 1940s, so it’s not a very archaic usage.