French language Q&A Forum

Hello - just wanted to let you know that one of the titles says "prepositionals phrases" - probably just a mistranslation from French into English:)

I'm very familiar with the expression, "faire le menage". I chose to write "faire le nettoyage" to see if it would be accepted and it was marked wrong. The alternative phrase given was, "...mon marie et mois allons nettoyer..."

Larousse defines "nettoyer" as a transitive verb in which case doesn't "nettoyer" need a direct object? In that case, is "L'apres-midi mon mari et moi allons nettoyer et nos enfants vont ranger leurs chambres" correct?  Don't you need to say "...mon mari et moi allons nettoyer la maison..."?

In English, the verb, "to clean" is both transitive and intransitive which differs from the French.

Merci et Bonne Continuation

Hi I have to choose between 'en' and 'y' to complete the following - on _____ revient tourjours contents.     Is it 'en' because or 'revenir de' or 'y' because there is no 'de' here? 

My score was "You scored 0 out of 60 - hmm, missed your coffee this morning?!" yet it was actually my best one yet..I am not sure how to submit a ticket for this.

Can you explain why bocal is not accepted.  When I researched the word, jar, bocal seemed more specific than pot.  When is a jar a bocal and when is it a pot ?  Is it the size of the jar?

Is the usage of devoir for 'supposed to do something' used more frequently than censé or être censé?

You should not be grading us on punctuations. This is ridiculous.

Bonjour! I am a bit confused about the example without à. In what context would you skip it? Merci! 

In the example:   "I always liked you."  You give the answer:  Vous m'avez toujours plu.

I think it should be:  Je vous avez toujours plu.

I know that the verb "manquer" uses a strange inversion of the subject and object, but I don't think that applies to "plaire". Does it??

Bill, email woh1712@gmail .com

1) The audio says "Il fera très beau sur la majeure partie du pays" - but the text says "Il fera très beau sur la plupart du pays"

2) The policy for these dictées has always been (apart from at the very low levels) to encourage us to write numbers as figures rather than to spell them out. However, this exercise marks you wrong if you write "entre 25 et 30 degrés" rather than "entre vingt-cinq et trente degrés".

Apologies if I'm asking this question in the wrong place!