French language Q&A Forum

wow this story is so intresting

(A)Read and bullet point the lesson but DO NOT read ANY of the example sentences. So you are really benefitting from the 'NUTSHELL' information.

(B)Read your bullet points and and commit to memory..including  how to spell meilleures..etc do not gloss over!

      Your bullet points should include:

            (i) the guideline for all these 'terms' with  ETRE it  is the same throughout the lesson.

            (ii) Pire--the adjective-- is the comparative forms of MAUVAISE 

           (III) PIRE ---the adverb is only used with ETRE. 

           (1V) So 'pire' the adjective means 'worse' (la pire the worst) and PIRE the ADVERB is                               only found with ETRE.

(C)Now read the entire lesson again. including the example sentences, you should have a clearer grasp of the choices made. 

(D) Then go off in confidence and "soyez les meilleurs et faites bien vos comparatifs!!

In the imperative, what is the rule for pronouncing the letter vs the letter sound ? I’ve heard both and don’t understand the difference. 

Pourquoi on ne peut pas écrire?

1)Après être séparé au lieu de après s’être séparé. Dans la premiere option est-ce qu'il faut un objet....après être séparé de .... qqchose

2)six mois avant au lieu de six mois plus tôt?

3)That was the last time we played matchmakers

   j'ai ecrit

   c’était la dernière fois qu'on a joué les matchmakers.(c'est acceptable??)

Merci .

The suggested translation of 'will justify much better' is 'justifiera bien mieux'; and if you try 'justifiera beaucoup mieux' it is marked wrong. I had thought either would be fine here?

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' ?

I can’t figure out when to make cent plural when writing dates. I see it is plural in 1900 but not in most other dates. 

depuis que j'etais petite pendant l'hiver, on a campe dans les montagnes dans le canton de Geneve.