French language Q&A Forum

In the second sentence, why is "cher" masculine, and not feminine.    

I was corrected when translating "love" with adorer instead of aimer, but on my next quiz "love" was translated with adorer. Is there a way to remember which to use? They were both regarding inanimate objects.

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Hello everyone.

I'm reading the book, La Belle et La Bête, and I saw une année passe. Why does it use année instead of an?

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"qu'on pouvait passer ses vacances ainsi"   Why l'imparfait and not le conditionnel?

J'habite à Alexandrie en Egypte. Est-ce correct ?

A little unclear re the use of the above. What is the difference, if any, between the following ?:

J'ai peu d'amis and J'ai quelques amis

It's very frustrating, even after listening to it 20 times and with the volume turned up, I hear, "...mais longtemps encore très souvent les chansons à la radio...".

The fill in the blanks exercise was about people arriving in a new town, to find the streets empty of people. "Tous les magasins de la ville étaient fermés." This was followed by a sentence in the past tense (walking on empty streets from 3pm till 5pm) Then came the sentence being queried (post below).   Thanks so very much to all who responded earlier.