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Colin W.C1Kwiziq community member

Hobby vs loisir

Couldn't loisir be used for hobby or is hobby more common (another English word adopted by the French!)?

Asked 2 years ago

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G B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Punctuation query

The sentence to be translated: I can listen to them for hours!

I wrote: Je peux les écouter pendant des heures !

The exclamation mark was marked as incorrect even though it was called for in the original sentence.

Asked 4 years ago

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Andrea N.B2Kwiziq community member

Response to question from Peter (asked 5 months ago)Using L'Imparfait in hypothetical clauses introduced by si (if) + Le Conditionnel Présent

I had this same question, as I forgot the above lesson, so I thought I should respond as it would save others time. The question related to: 'si je POUVAIS, j'aurais été astronaute.'

Asked 4 years ago

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Brian E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

“QUENTIN: When do we get there?”For these three answers, does “there” not need to be explicitly included, maybe with a “y”, such as “QUENTIN : Quand est-ce qu'on y arrive ?” Same question for “We'll get there when we get there!”.

Asked 5 years ago

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David H.Kwiziq community member

Level test

I have lots of questions

First what's the use of this level test

Asked 3 years ago

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Tibor H.B2Kwiziq community member

Could you help me with demonstrative pronouns?

Hello,

So, the demonstrative pronouns in French, if I'm not mistaken, are: celui, ceux, celle, celles

While in English, they're: this, these, that, those

But if I want to translate: That looks like the car I used to drive. in French, that's Cela ressemble à la voiture que je conduisais.

Why cela and not celle ?

So, when do you actually use the french demonstrative pronouns?

Asked 4 years ago

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Bhavani S.B2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

La politesse. ________ inhabituel. Politeness. That's unusual.

Salut

J'ai choisi - ça- pour répodre sur la question. mais il est tort. pourquoi,, La traduction sur l'anglais peut être le mauvais. Vous pouvez vérifier s'il-vous-plait

Asked 4 years ago

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Valerie O.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

D'ici demain vs d'ici ce soir

I'm perplexed. My answer to a quiz was marked wrong when I translated "by tonight" as "d'ici soir". Apparently it should be d'ici ce soir. But by tomorrow is "d'ici demain". Could you please explain the difference because the lesson doesn't address this. Thanks.

Asked 3 years ago

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Judy R.B2Kwiziq community member

I don’t understand why the pronoun “le” is added to sentences where it doesn’t seem necessary.

Asked 1 year ago

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sivani p.A1Kwiziq community member

Gender of baby

Bonjour!
Here baby in French means "le bebe" as "le" here is it a male baby or a baby in general and if it is a female baby can we replace it with "la" as in " la bebe "

Asked 1 year ago

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