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D. A.B1KwizIQ community member

Imparfait to Express HabitsThis is a wonderful training exercise on using the imperfect past tense. It helped me begin to understand when using the conditional would be an improper choice. This said, American's automatically apply the conditional tense when we see the word "would." So...is the conditional tense applied more in an "if then" context? Such as, "Marie répondrait à Paul, mais elle avait peur."

Asked 3 years ago

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Charles T.C1KwizIQ community member

Negative use of falloir

I just opened a french novel and the first line is: "Il ne faut pas que l'on nous voie." I searched for negative statements like this on Lawless and found the example here: "Il ne faut pas que nous mangions avec les doigts." So I guess putting the 'ne . . . pas' round 'faut' is correct. It seems strange to me as an Anglophone. If I were making this up, I guess I would say: "Il faut que nous ne mangions pas avec les doigts." Is that incorrect?

Asked 4 years ago

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Jaya R.B1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Tenses - Quand elle sera grandie, elle voyagera beaucoup. Is it right? Or "Quand elle aura grandi, elle voyagera beaucoup " is right? Please clarify

Quand elle sera grandie, elle voyagera beaucoup.

Is this sentence right?

I feel the following is right. Please clarify anyone.

Quand elle aura grandi, elle voyagera beaucoup.

Asked 5 years ago

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Brian E.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

“which will relax me”

Can “ce qui déroulera” be used here, or does this verb mean “unwind” only in a more literal sense (e.g. unwind a reel of cable)?

Asked 5 years ago

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Harshil P.KwizIQ community member

Mettez à la futur proche

Voua allez au marché dans quelques minutes

Asked 6 years ago

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Sreenidhi&Pranav R.A0KwizIQ community member

Prepositions to be used

What preposition should we use for:

1) city

2)country

If there are any exception pls mention them.

Asked 5 years ago

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nicole r.A2KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Countable vs uncountable

Bonjour,

I was working on the partitive articles and was wondering if these sentences that I did myself are correct?

Je veux du lait

J'ai des bijoux

Thanks

Nicole

Asked 5 years ago

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fay a.A2KwizIQ community member

How to use pronouns when using rendre visite à

What if you want to use a pronoun how would you say it. Example j'ai rendu visite à ma soeur. In this case if I want to replace à ma soeur with a pronoun

Asked 4 years ago

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Lesley W.C1KwizIQ community member

mais la prochaine fois c'est moi qui choisis le film

Why is the future rather than the present not used for this? i.e. 'next time I will choose the film' or 'next time I am going to choose the film' because it is suggesting an action in the future.

Asked 4 years ago

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Mysterious StrangerKwizIQ community member

would this be correct ... 'Je veux pas du tout de lait ?'

Or otherwise

je ne veux pas du tout lait ?

does the 'du tout' cancel out the de ?? (normal sentence: je ne veux pas de lait)

also regarding verbs that need prepositions before the infinitive...

je ne te permets pas du tout de venir ici

je ne te demande pas du tout de me voir

Asked 6 years ago

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