French language Q&A Forum

Yes Paul. I agree with you. I never learned phrases like that in school. Would they be commonly used ie. Should I try to use them in conversation or would I get funny looks, haha?

I feel that this is an ambiguous statement and could be passé composé (as the act of transition) or l'imparfait (as a state of being).  As in "My mother was Oriental, but my father came from Europe" vs. "They came from Europe to go to the funeral".  Compare: "Once upon a time, a king lived in his castle."

In this exercise, we could use faire face à qqch and affronter to express face something, and what about envisager? 

Could we use this verb to express the same meaning? 

Thank you.

Hi, i've noticed in some sentences like 'Demain, on doit se lever tôt' they use Lever instead of Leve, when should i be using Lever.

How do you describe colors that are not the basic color wheel hues like red, blue, green, purple?  For example, if I wanted to describe a pale peachy-pink?  Rose is too broad.  I am an artist and I want to be able to describe in French colors more specifically. Merci.

Could one also use « la facture «  as well as « la note »?

Is it acceptable to say here instead:

Sur laquelle elle s'allongeait en rêvassant pendant des heures.?

Because "gens" is "people" - plural - I put "...les gens qui sortent constamment leurs portables de leurs poches". Is there anything in the pronuncation that I missed that showed it was definitely singular? Or is it a rule in french that you would always say "they took their phone from their pocket" unless they all owned several phones and were taking them out of more than one pocket each? Or...was my answer plausibly a correct hearing?