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manpreet kaur j.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

https://french.kwiziq.com/revision/grammar/adjectives-usually-go-after-nouns-positions-of-adjectives

According to the lesson Vrai before noun means quite a.... where as Vrai after noun means true. So why are we using vraie here before cuisine when we want to say a true kitchen?

Asked 5 years ago

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P. T.C1Kwiziq community member

Une différence dans l'estimation du nombre de variétés de fromage français

La réponse à la question deux est "Il y a au moins 1 200 variétés de fromage en France". Mais, en 1962, Charles de Gaulle a dit "Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage?".

Pourriez-vous expliquer l'écart entre 246 variétés de fromage et 1 200 variétés de fromage, s'il vous plaît? A moins que la France n'ait développé 954 nouvelles variétés de fromages depuis 1962, la différence réside, vraisemblablement, dans la définition de "variété".

Asked 3 years ago

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Ruby H.A0Kwiziq community member

Veux vs Voudrais?

Sometimes Vouloir (to want) is conjugated as veux at the present tense, but sometimes it is conjugated as veux for the pronoun je. Does this have to do with formality?

Asked 4 years ago

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nicole r.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Plural adjectives

Bonjour!

I noticed that in the sentence une femme heureuse at des femmes heureuses that the es was not underline like the others were.

I was hoping if you could fix that and underline the es so it could help the reader whose reading it understand it better. It was 2x on the same page.

Nicole

Asked 5 years ago

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Carol W.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

je crois que tu es belle

it could be a strong belief so why marked wrong in favour of penser

Asked 4 years ago

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Marie V.C1Kwiziq community member

Tu vs vous

I am trying why the woman's male partner addresses her as "tu" in one sentence, then as "vous" in the next sentence. Would please explain why?

Asked 5 years ago

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Tom G.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Comment fait-ons tenir la marque ?

Je pense que je fais mieux que 26 de 60.

Asked 6 years ago

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Robyn H.A1Kwiziq community member

de + les , only sometimes... why?

Questions about this topic, using the lesson examples:

Il a mangé de magnifiques gâteaux

He ate some magnificent cakes.

J'achète de beaux draps

I buy nice sheets.

Note that when the adjective is placed BEFORE a plural noun, the partitive article des (some) becomes de (or d' in front of a vowel or mute h).

ATTENTION:
This rule doesn't apply when des is the contraction of "de + les" (= of/from/to the) :

J'ai acheté de nouvelles bottes

I bought [some] new boots.

My question is: how is the 3rd example actually different from the previous two? How do we know that it would have be “de + les” and that they would not? Why wouldn’t they also have that option?

Merci à l’avance!

Asked 2 years ago

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Jangir G.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

If the city name begins with a vowel, de becomes d'Je viens de Hong Kong.

Why "de Hong Kong" and not "d'Hong Kong" ? Is it because city name consists of two words ?

Asked 3 years ago

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L. E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

juste un petit commentaire

Les mots "infirmiere" et "hopital" sont difficiles a comprendre avec cet audio. (a mon avis) Mais merci pour la dictee. :)

Asked 5 years ago