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Michael D.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Il doit se faire un sang d'encre à l'idée que je m'inquiète de son silence !

Qu'est-ce-que cette citation veut dire ?

"he must be worried sick at the idea that I'm worried/anxious about his silence" ?

Quoi ? S'il a mal, avec intoxication d'alimentation, cloué au lit, il a plus des problèmes que si elle est inquiété, non ?

Si ça n'est pas correct, je n'en aucune idée.

Asked 3 years ago

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Adrian B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Position of "ancien"

For "these old objects" I tried "ces objets anciens" and was corrected to "ces anciens objets". Is ancien going before the noun here because there is some sense of former-ness (the objects aren't what they used to be), even though they are still objects?

Asked 3 years ago

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Taksh G.Kwiziq community member

Répondez une ou en deux phrases

Qu'est-ce qu'une galatte

Asked 2 years ago

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G. D.C1Kwiziq community member

Mais personne mieux que Claude Nougaro n'aura incarné

Why is the future perfect used in this sentence: "Mais personne mieux que Claude Nougaro n'aura incarné..."?

Would present tense not work here?

Asked 3 years ago

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James B.B2Kwiziq community member

Le Champagne Connu Partout

Hello!

I tried a different way of writing the final sentence, and it wasn't accepted by the exercise engine:

"que l'on peut aujourd'hui savourer le champage aux fines bulles qui se connaît dans le monde entier."

I tried this because the English text specified "[that is]" and I thought it was prompting use of "qui" -- is this grammatically in correct?

Asked 4 years ago

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Kay C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

d'une bière aujourd'hui

Why is it "d'une" and "de boire" ?

Asked 5 years ago

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Liyunzi C.A2Kwiziq community member

'en' stand for what in this sentence below? Merci!- car l'écrivaine 'en' a fait un personnage principal de son œuvre.

Asked 4 years ago

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Stephen N.C1Kwiziq community member

Why "le sens de l'orientation" instead of "de sens de l'orientation" ?

I understand about the "l'orientation" part, but shouldn't this read "Je n'ai jamais eu DE sens . . .." ? In negative sentences, we are told to use "de" after a negative express in order to express no/any, which seems to be exactly what this sentence is doing. Why translate "I've never had A good sense of direction" with a definite article?

Un/une become de/d' in negative sentences in French (French Indefinite Articles)

Asked 4 years ago

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John E.C1Kwiziq community member

Doesn't "Tu aurais vu" mean "You would have seen" and "Tu aurais dù voir mean you should have seen

Asked 3 years ago

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Don R.C1Kwiziq community member

... so that they sustain you until the next time. -- SOUTENIR for sustain?

Merci pour un texte du moment. 🥰

J'ai une question de vocabulaire.

Est-ce que « pour qu'elles vous SOUTIENNENT jusqu'à la prochaine fois » est acceptable comme une traduction ?