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Ry O.C1Kwiziq community member

Question about Avant Que

Asked 7 years ago

Paul B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Tu auras pris le train d'ici là : You will have taken the train by then.

By then : d'ici là.

Is that a colloquialism?

Asked 7 years ago

David A.C1Kwiziq community member

What do you expect me to do?

Looking for advice as to whether this works for - What do you expect me to do?:

Qu'attendez-vous que je fasse?

Asked 7 years ago

Julie H.B1Kwiziq community member

its not clear to me when to use il faut and when to use il faut que

Asked 7 years ago

Terry W.C1Kwiziq community member

Is it correct, je n'ais pas tort, to say I am not wrong ?Just wanted to check that in the negative for tort et raison that there is no 'de'

Asked 7 years ago

Ann H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

In the writing challenge, the translation from english was that person dreamed of going to Paris, I translated this as y rêver thinking rêver à allerbut the answer was en rêver. Please explain why

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Eloise M.A2Kwiziq community member

I answered tu t'appelle Thomas to the question your name is Thomas -- the correct answer was Tu m'apelle Thomas -- why?

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John W.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

DevoirWe are told that devoir can sometimes mean 'to need to [do]' yet only one example is given and no further explanation. In the example devoir is followed by a verb in the infinitive. Is that how devoir can be used?

Asked 7 years ago

Paul B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Jack descended (on) the giant

I can see from the discussion that I am not the only learner who gets confused about this, but am I correct that these two sentences are translated thus:

Jack descended the giant = Jack a descendu le geant (Sorry, can't do the accent)

and

Jack descended on the giant = Jack est descendu sur le geant.

Asked 7 years ago

Cade B.A2Kwiziq community member

"on" vs "tu" and "vous" for you"I have been taking the writing challenge to test it out for future use with my students. I notice that when translating a 'you' statement the correct responses never include the option for using 'tu' or 'vous' and instead rely on using only 'on'. I understand the benefit of teaching the impersonal 'on' but feel that the 'tu' and 'vous' versions of the sentence should also be counted as correct. The 'on' pronoun in my understanding of spoken French is more commonly used as 'we' though it of course can be interpreted in many ways. I wonder if requiring it to be the only translation accepted for a 'you' statement might be leading the students toward a misunderstanding of the pronoun. Thanks for listening! I love the product so far."

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