French language Q&A Forum

1. In the above sentence, why didn't we use the article partitive des?

A similar trend is seen in this sentence as well:

Une dernière idée est de recycler une râpe à fromage rouillée en (un?) présentoir à boucles d'oreille. 

2. making alterations ---> apporter des modifications? Is this a fixed expression in French?

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

And you, how are you?

The corrections switch from French to English. Why? Is there a way to stop this?

Why am I getting 0 score for writing in French?????

In this lesson about de/d'in front of adjectives preceding nouns, there are examples:

des endroits magnifiques

de magnifiques gâteaux 

I understand the point about using de when the adjective precedes, but why is magnifique used both before and after the nouns in these examples?

1. Puis-je écrire « où » au lieu de « quand » ici ?

2. Est-ce qu'il y a une règle qui nous permet de déterminer quelles expressions anglaises contenant « with » se traduiraient par « de » en français ?

3. « Une fondue chinoise » est-elle un plat suisse ?

Merci de votre coopération.

HI there, long time fan, first time commenter. 

I have no idea what 'that's it' is supposed to mean in this context? It isn't a phrase I would ever use unless used in the following scenarios: 

"That's it! You've cracked the case." (When referring to a previous piece of information or clue or input).

"That's it. I've had enough." 

"That's it. I've been looking for it everywhere" (here I would use 'that's the one' instead).

Could you please provide an alternative of what this is supposed to mean? As this translation feels awfully unnatural to me. Is this a specific phenomenon that can't really be translated or is situational? As I would never say "That's it. She finally got her results" in this way?  

In the last vignette, is quais incorrect for the dialogue?  isn't Oui correct?