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N. T.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Dont needs a de?Am I right in thinking that if the sentence was “the girls I’m thinking about are amazing “…
…then I could have used the DONT? Thanks

How could you say "The girls I'm thinking of are amazing." ?

Les filles auxquels je pense sont géniales. Les filles à qui je pense sont géniales.Les filles à laquelle je pense sont géniales.Les filles dont je pense sont géniales.Les filles à quoi je pense sont géniales.Les filles auxquelles je pense sont géniales.

Asked 2 years ago

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Lois S.A0Kwiziq community member

Can you please explain the differences between dans, a, and de? I took French more than 50 years ago and I never learned the differences.

Asked 4 years ago

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Richard M.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Je sors de Narbonne en ce moment-même.

Never sure about this one. I use ‘sortir’ when I’m leaving a house, for instance, but how does one ‘go out of’ a town? Seems to me that the examples using ‘partir’ and ‘quitter’ are the only correct ones, depending on context.

Asked 2 years ago

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Frank L.C1Kwiziq community member

You took this Kwiz 1 week, 4 days ago.This lesson is already in your notebook. Go to your notebook now to kwiz this topic as many times as you like.

This lesson is in my notebook so I'm in an endless loop here. I would like to do the kwiz for just this lesson. Seems like a coding problem. Apologies if this is the wrong place to report it.

Asked 4 years ago

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Paul F.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Une virgule

I'm being very picky with the punctuation here (but then again the little robot is often very picky about my punctuation, especially in the dictations haha). In the first sentence there should be a comma (and not a full-stop) in between "un petit déjeuner différent" and "ce qui peut rendre les matins un peu compliqués". (The corresponding English sentence did have the comma here.)

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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Maarten K.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Just realised the reason - comment removed

Wish we could delete these rather than having to leave a '.' in the submission or otherwise fill the space, like this!

Asked 5 years ago

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Jeuri M.C1Kwiziq community member

"...a little note."

Would "un petit mot" work as a translation here? I feel like I've come across this much more often than "note", or maybe there's some nuance I'm missing?

Asked 4 years ago

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Alexandra B.A2Kwiziq community member

Why passe compose

j'ai commencé à voir quelques petits boutons

Why is there passe compose and not l'imperfait?

Asked 2 years ago

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Janice M.B1Kwiziq community member

Ne pas plus

'Il a honte de ne pas plus aider les gens.' I don't understand the use of 'ne pas plus' in the sentence. Shouldn't it be 'ne plus'?

Asked 5 years ago