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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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Natasha R.B2Kwiziq community member

La population du Nigeria est de plus de ________ personnes.

I'm confused by the correct answer to this question:

>>La population du Nigeria est de plus de ________ personnes.

I wrote "un cent million de". However, the correct answer was "cent millions de".

Why do we drop the "un" in this case (unlike the examples)? Why is "millions" plural, even though it is only 1 million?

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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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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