French language Q&A Forum

-Bonjour ! Comment tu t'applles ?

-Je suis Laila.

-Tu n'es pas français James, j'entends un accent. D'où viens-tu?

-Je parlais anglais. Je suis de Géorgie.

-As-tu des frères et soeurs ?

- Oui j'ai une Soeur plus âgée

-j'habite dans le nord

-C'est super ! Tu parles très bien français.

-Je suppose

-Non, vraiment !

-Merci, vous êtes très gentil.

-Et tu aimes bien Bordeaux?

-Oui c'est très sympa !

-Haha ! Oui, en effet. Merci pour cette interview.

-Merci, ce fut un plaisir !

Why is "pouvoir" before "les utiliser" in the fourth sentence? The English to be translated was just "in order to use".

Mon chien favorit s'appelait Pip.  Why the imparfait here?  It seems a simple statement, neither ongoing, repeated nor descriptive.  It doesn't seem to fulfill any of the criteria of the imparfait.

How would you write "Question of the Day"? For example, each day my french class starts with a "question of the day". I've been using jour but now I'm worried I've been incorrect.

Is there some reason to use one or the other? It seems to me that there needs to be an object for ¨adorer¨...?

It’d be nice to have an example of what to do with the past participle of être verbs when using "on" when it means "we".  I can’t find this covered in either of the modules On : we.

In the context of this lesson, 'remind [someone] of [someone or something]' means 'put unwittingly [someone] in mind of the subject's resemblance to [someone else or something else]'. The meaning in French, although the grammatical construction is different from English in terms of direct and indirect objects, is the same as this.

But what about the alternative English usage 'remind of' meaning 'cause consciously [someone] to remember to give attention to [a person or thing]'. Often this is expressed in a sentence such as "Jack reminded me that my uncle is coming next week", but could be shortened to "Jack reminded me of [or about] my uncle's visit".

How would the last sentence be translated?

« ma mère s’est fait ranger ma chambre «  n’est pas français.  it is total nonsense. 

Why do you use translations in the full text playback that are not the translations said to be the best when providing feedback on the student-submitted translations?  Are they perhaps the ones used most by native speakers.

The following answer is given as correct: 'J'ai eu peur que nous soyons arrivés trop tard'.  

My question is: given its 'negative ' sentiment shouldn't the answer include the 'ne expletif'?