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Tom A.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

faire de lui / en faire

I notice that the preferred translation of 'which makes him the first Frenchman to be in charge of the ISS' is 'ce qui fait de lui le premier Français en charge de la SSI' rather than 'ce qui en fait le premier ...'. All the grammar books I look at say that en can stand for 'de' plus a person - but I can see that in practice 'en fait' for 'makes him' is almost never said in French. Is it just too literary for this kind of phrase?

Asked 1 year ago

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Jeffrey B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Text-Audio Mismatch

In the 5th segment of the dialogue, the text reads:

"- Je voudrais une boule à la vanille, une boule au chocolat et une boule à la fraise s'il vous plaît."

But the audio says:

" - Je voudrais une boule à la vanille, et(?) une boule au chocolat et une boule à la fraise s'il vous plaît." I'm not sure if that word is actually "et" as it almost sounds like "y a", as though somebody is saying "il y a" too fast.

This is in both the lesson and the end-of-lesson full text.

Asked 3 years ago

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Julie C.C1Kwiziq community member

Reread writing exercise French

How do I reread writing exercises full text without having to do whole exercise again.

Thanks. M

Asked 4 years ago

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D. A.A1Kwiziq community member

The lesson

Hi, um does, "il mange de la glace" mean he eats sone ice cream, or he eats ice cream?

Asked 2 years ago

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Tonio C.C1Kwiziq community member

Christophe ________ son déjeuner quand les autres sont arrivés.

Yes “finissait” is the right answer here, but the verb “terminer” is more appropriate here.

Asked 4 years ago

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Glen B.C1Kwiziq community member

Maybe because?

Is it because fatiquer is transitive ‘only’ and ‘must’ have an object, otherwise fatiguée here is an adjective? Might be back to A level for me!

Asked 2 years ago

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仔海.C1Kwiziq community member

Why is it "Envoie-la-vous" not "Envoie-vous-la?"

Bonjour,

Why is it "Envoie-la-vous" not "Envoie-vous-la?" Aren't me/te/nous/vous always placed before le/la/les? Merci.

Asked 2 years ago

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Roger R.C1Kwiziq community member

Do the French set off a nominative of address with a comma as we do in English ? For example, is it "Sois poli, Paul" or "Sois poli Paul" ?

Asked 4 years ago

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Gilberts I.B2Kwiziq community member

"You had" + verb is l'imparfait?

You define L'imparfait as being about things that happened repeatedly in the past or past habits. Yet "You had eaten cereal this morning" is neither a repeated action nor a past habits, yet is expressed in L'imparfait... "tu avais mangé des céréales ce matin"? Sounds more like your definition of le passé composé - a single event in a defined timeframe. I get that the grammar is correct. What I'm questioning is your definitions.

Asked 3 years ago

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nicole r.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Adverbial pronoun

Bonjour,

I was wondering why in my tests that I'm taking that I'm seeing the adverbial pronouns as well as qui que etc. I'm only in A0/A1

Merci

Nicole

Asked 4 years ago

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