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Peter B.C1Kwiziq community member
Faulty question

Oscar  à compter jusqu'à dix en français. (Oscar manages to count up to ten in French.)HINT: Conjugate "arriver" (to manage) in Le Présent 

Should this be ("gerer" ----to manage)

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CrystalMaiden 7.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
So can dans be replaced with apres to mean the same thing here?

We will eat in an hour's time/after an hour,
" Nous mangerons dans une heure/apres une heure. "

If so, saying this would make the lesson easier to grasp, because dans and en mean practically the same thing when en means in in my head.

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Paul B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Continuation Question on tense and gender.

"the verb must agree with the gender and number of the person."

Can you please explain the discrepancy between these two sources of information? Thanks. 

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Paul B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Agreement with tense and gender of subjectI have just reviewed https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/agreement-with-pronominal-verbs/ as recommended in another Q&A and it disagrees with the teaching in this lesson that 
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Julianne Q.B2Kwiziq community member
Is the correct English translation of Je déteste la California ou la Provence, I dislike California and Provence i think the point is that in French 'ou' is used in this situation rather than 'et' - is that right? 
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Paul B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Can you please give more explanation and examples of how the reflexive participle agrees in number and gender?For example: Nous nous sommes brosse(s) les dents/les cheveux
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Pekka J.A1Kwiziq community member
Hi. The perfect tense rather than the past tense?

Hi.' Mademoiselle Rose, vous êtes devenue une charmante jeune fille' translates as: M. Rose, you became a charming young lady.  Wouldn't the perfect tense: you have become ' be better here if this is a direct comment to Miss Rose? 

Pekka Järvilehto. 

Helsinki

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Terri R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
I don't understand why "Currently speak Spanish" is not a correct answer.I don't understand why currently speak Spanish is not a correct answer. Couramment means currently, correct? It also means fluently, but how is someone to know which definition you are using in this particular example? Please help. Thanks, Terri"

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Nabeel D.C1Kwiziq community member
La prochaine

 Je vais à l'université la prochaine année is considered wrong, while l’année prochaine is considered right. Explain please. 

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CrystalMaiden 7.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Why is the weekday pluralized at " tous les mercredis? "I was taught earlier that you're not allowed to pluralize weekdays like that. Is it because of the tous les structure? Also, I think it'd help if the lesson advised you to pretend the subject pronoun is there before the verb but after the person name to make conjugating easier: " Jean and I, we went to the cinema = Jean et moi (nous) sommes alles au cinema. "
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