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Barbara O.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

J'ai complètement apprécié cette histoire car .....

je pouvais me voir faire exactement la même chose! :)

Asked 4 years ago

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Modesty O.A2KwizIQ community member

How to flip this sentence

So in this lesson, I was studying this sentence: “Pour calmer mes enfants, je leur lis une histoire.” I also remembered that lui/leur is only used when a verb goes with “à”, like “Je téléphone à mon frère” —> “Je lui téléphone.” So is this grammatically correct? “Pour calmer mes enfants, je leur lis une histoire.” —> “Je lis une histoire à mes enfants pour leur calmer.”

Asked 3 years ago

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manpreet kaur j.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Can we say une des langues officielles instead of l’une des langues officielles?

Asked 5 years ago

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Kimber H.B2KwizIQ community member

The vocab/grammar choices are questionable at times here- Il adore les animaux donc il était très excité !/Vocab: This adjective on its own often has a sexual connotation, so it's better to use another expression, e.g. Il attendait avec impatience cette sortie./Grammar: - needs an "en" -> il EN était très enthousiaste etc. See more here: excited - English-French Dictionary WordReference.com

- Les singes étaient malicieux/this has a more negative meaning... one wouldn't laugh about it...."farceurs" is better here as that would elicit laughter

- nous avons bien rigolé !/Grammar: - needs an "en" ->nous EN avons bien rigolé

- j'ai préféré le numéro de trapèze : j'ai retenu /qui m'a fait retenir mon souffle plusieurs fois !

Asked 4 years ago

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Shraddha J.A0KwizIQ community member

Order of words

Thank you helping in previous question.

How to know the order of the words..?

Est ce que tu parles la francias?

Est ce que parlez vous la francias?

How to decide- personal pronoun to be used has to be before verb or after verb??

Thank you

Asked 5 years ago

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E. T.B2KwizIQ community member

Examples with que

It would be good to see some examples with que as well, not just qui or qu'

"If including / [number] of which is followed by a conjugated verb, in French you need to add a relative pronoun (qui or que / qu') in front of the verb"

Asked 4 years ago

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Owen W.B2KwizIQ community member

faire comme'J'allais enfin faire comme mes grands frères !' as an english native i find this sentence very hard to parse, can someone explain the use of 'faire comme' here cause i see it elsewhere as well

Asked 2 years ago

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trip t.B2KwizIQ community member

il n'y a pas de meilleure saint Valentin

Asked 6 years ago

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N. Hilary (Shamrockhill) W.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

Enjoyed this exercise and some questions

This was a fun exercise. I really enjoyed learning about la montee des marches and seeing the beautiful photographs of Cannes while researching the vocabulary.

My question refers to the "hotel de luxe". Since the "stars" are plural wouldn't one assume that they leave their "luxury hotels", (plural)? Which would be: "leurs hotels de luxe" ? Or, is the possessive here always expressed in the singular, "leur hotel de luxe"?

Another question is about the use of the present tense in "j'admire". Would it be incorrect to say, "...que j'admirais depuis toujours"

Merci beaucoup !!

Asked 4 years ago

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Maria P.A1KwizIQ community member

afin de for reflexive verbs

can we use afin de for reflexive verbs? is it a je vais dans la salle debains afin de me laver?

Asked 5 years ago

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