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Ovidiu G.A1Kwiziq community member

Grammaire (la leçon du pronoms en et y)

Bonjour! Je suis étudiant. Pouvez-vous m'aider avec cet exercice?

Écrivez 3 phrases avec en, 3 phrases avec y. Vous pouvez utiliser les verbes: avoir besoin de, se souvenir de, parler de, penser à, réfléchir à.

Asked 5 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 3 years ago

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Maarten K.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

s'assoir is correct spelling - 1990 rectifications

s'assoir is having a blue 'e' correction added, although both spellings - s'asseoir and s'assoir - are correct.

Asked 5 years ago

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chris w.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

'I cut it' is both present and past tense in English.

It might be helpful if you indicate which it is? My natural inclination is to think it's past tense.

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Kathleen P.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

car il est crucial que nous l'aidions à ouvrir les huîtres

Did anyone else have trouble understanding this sentence?

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Kim H.A2Kwiziq community member

Choisis? (C'est moi qui choisis le film!)

Why use the passe simple here?

Asked 4 years ago

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francis C.C1Kwiziq community member

Special cases when the past participle agrees (in number & gender) when used with 'avoir' in Le Passé Composé

Les odeurs envoûtantes qui émanaient de ce coin de paradis m'ont accompagnées.

Why ées.?

What is subject,direct object in this sentence? why not accompagné

Asked 5 years ago

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Frank C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Translation of "Would you like to try?"

I translated this as, Voulez-vous en goûter. Apparently, the 'en' is not necessary as it was crossed out in the correction. In English, the word, some, is implied after try or taste, suggesting an indefinite amount. If she had said, "Would you like to try one?", I believe the translation would be "Voulez-vous en goûter un". Can you comment?

Asked 2 years ago

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Kwame A.A2Kwiziq community member

Why 'on ne peut pas voyager très loin' but not 'vous ne pouvez pas voyager très loin'?

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Ed B.B1Kwiziq community member

Re: food shopping in Canada

Would it be possible to adapt this lesson for those living in Québec? Here, they would use the phrase "faire son épicerie"?

http://www.trickortrip.com/bases-culturelles-faire-ses-courses-au-quebec/

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