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Mariyam L.Kwiziq community member

1-Tout bien pesé, si recommencer ma vie, je crois bien que je n'y changerais rien.

Asked 2 years ago

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Sid S.C1Kwiziq community member

Confusing question

Questions including sentenses like "This bedroom is grey. - Yes, it's grey here." make absolutley no sense to me.

What is "Yes, it's grey here" referring to? The weather, or a completely different bedroom perhaps.

As I have no idea, I have to quess and and so keep getting the answer wrong.

I would be grateful if you could tell me what the question means by using different words.

Asked 3 years ago

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Tom G.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Why passé composé?

For the sentence, j'ai grandi en regardant les matches avec lui, how come it's not in the imparfait? He was growing up over a period of time, and watched several matches during this time, so it was a repeated action. I thought it should be imparfait. Please advise.

Asked 5 years ago

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Sydney B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

In lesson for 'ne explitif'"Évitons que la situation ne dégénère !Let's avoid the situation getting worse!" appears. Instead of 'avoid' wouldn't 'prevent be better, or is avoid maybe used in Britain to an extent?-- I'm American, and the latter sounds more natural to me.

Asked 3 years ago

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White L.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Savoir vs. Connaître

Tu sais, le célèbre couturier ? Why is "sais" used rather than "connaiss”? I thought: Savoir means "to know a fact", while connaître means to know a person or to be familiar with a person, place or thing. Merci!

Asked 2 years ago

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Frank C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Translation of "the one"

In the translation of, "I've always been fascinated by French high fashion, of which Yves Saint-Laurent is one of the most iconic figures.", do we use l'une instead of l'un because of the agreement with the 'la figure' ?

Asked 2 years ago

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James S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Their life or their lives

Hi Kwiziq team,

Why not "their lives" here:

Je fais ce que je peux pour rendre leur(s) vie(s) plus facile tout en leur faisant découvrir notre culture.

Thank you

Asked 2 years ago

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Dundee D.A1Kwiziq community member

Vocabulary Flashcards

Can you give us a list of all vocabulary as an excel sheet or something? I'd love to make myself some flashcards instead of reading a list for using it with for example the flashcards app Anki. I won't share it if you don't want me to, but if you want to have the Anki deck then you can have it too of course.

Asked 2 years ago

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ROBERT B.C1Kwiziq community member

paraître in passé composé - être or avoir ?

I put in "Le lapin EST disparu" and I was marked as wrong. "A paru" was given as the only correct answer.

Asked 2 years ago

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Padmavati A.B2Kwiziq community member

Ses / Nos - translation

The tittle of the passage is 'A quoi ça sert de trier ses déchets' is translated as what is the use of sorting our waste? Our=notre / nos? and ses = his / her / its? Please help understand if the translation is correct?

Asked 3 years ago

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