French language Q&A Forum

I would like to know why retenir means "to learn" here and not apprendre

I just asked my French son in law if he or his friends or family ever call it "Saint Sylvestre", and he says,

There are clearly only two participants in this conversation, who are at least friends, if not relatives. 

Should it not be:  Attention de ne pas te brûler  ?

Fish which Japanese people love (raffoler de) are becoming extinct.

Les poissons dont les japonais raffolent de sont en voie de disparition.

Why is the sont conjugated as well, I thought two verbs couldn't follow each other in conjugated form. I though that one needed to be in infinif form. 

Why is there so much emphasis on this when it’s only used in serious written French.

Why is the answer to this:  Sarah ________ la salade à Michel.

se passe as opposed to passe?  

Isn't this a simple act of passing something, as in the first example, "passer quelque chose"?  I understood that it only needed the reflexive pronoun for something happening or someone doing without something.   Can you enlighten me?

Thanks.

What does this mean, kindly illustrate it with an example.

When the subject of your interrogative sentence is a noun, this one comes first and it's then repeated by the matching pronoun

Please can some explain why the subjunctive mood is used in the sentence - Qu'est-ce que tu dirais qu'on se fasse une double séance en son honneur?

Hi I am a bit confused. I was reading about adverbs and I saw this sentence

Je t'aimerai pour toujours --> I will love you forever

I though the infinitive Te/t' would only follow sentences with Tu at the start. Is there a rule around since it's about someone else the 'Je' bit at the start isn't the subject?

Is there a topic on this specifically for me to understand?

Thanks,

Max