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Tanmay P.Kwiziq community member

Changez les noms en remplaçant les pronoms C.O.D:

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Asked 5 years ago

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Frank C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Translation of ”because of”

In the translation of ” and I'm skint [US: broke] because of all the gifts that I must buy”, they use the expression ”à cause de” for because of. I was wondering if "en raison de" could be substituted for "à cause de". I tried it but it wasn't accepted. Is there a subtle difference that I don't understand?

Asked 1 year ago

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Frank C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Translation of thusIn the translation of thus in the sentence, "Thus, did you know that he was the one who'd popularised the women's tuxedo, which had revolutionised the fashion industry in the 1960s?", the acceptable choices given are 'de fait' and 'ainsi'. I agree with the latter for thus; however, my dictionary translates 'de fait' as 'actually' or 'in fact' and not 'thus'. Perhaps 'in fact' would have been more appropriate than 'thus' in this context.

Asked 2 years ago

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Steve P.A2Kwiziq community member

Lui / pour lui

Why isn't "je lui ai fabriqué un album photo" not "j'ai fabriqué pour lui un album photo"? The grammar section on lui v le focuses exclusively on verbs followed by à such as plaire and téléphoner.

Google Translate says "I made an album for him" = "J'ai fait un album pour lui" (but weirdly, "I made a photo album for him" = "Je lui ai fait un album photo").

Asked 2 years ago

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G B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Public transport

What is the difference between les transports en commun and les transports publics?

Asked 4 years ago

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Brian E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Pour tout ce qui se trouvait dans la fourchette de prix supérieure,Pour tout ce qui se trouvait dans la fourchette de prix supérieure, I thought that “tous/se trouvaient” would be used as “les produits” is plural. Is it “the French way” to treat this as a singular group?

Asked 4 years ago

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Ashby M.B2Kwiziq community member

Dictation - quality of the man's diction.

It does rather put modern man in a bad light, but that aside a good dictation exercise.

My main point though is that the woman's diction was clear but the man's was muffled and difficult to understand.

Asked 3 years ago

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Patrick K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Unclear speech.

The speech for "parmi lesquelles un quiz de l'année qui vient de s'écouler, " is extremely unclear, and I was unable to figure it out. I played it to someone who is a native French speaker, and she couldn't figure it out either. It's the "quiz de l'année" part that is really bad.

Asked 3 years ago

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Paul R.C1Kwiziq community member

Je n'ai fait rien

Est-ce que c'est possible d'écrire "Je n'ai fait rien", ç'est-a-dire, mettre le "rien" de la négation à la fin de la phrase ? Je crois avoir entendu qu'avec ce mot c'est possible mais Kwiziq ne me l'a pas permis.

Asked 2 years ago

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