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Alan M.A1KwizIQ community member

A note for non-English speakers

Not sure if anyone is gonna read this, but for those that are from countries where a billion means a million million, french uses the word billion as well.

This page confused me a bit since Spanish is my first language and in that language we generally use billion the same way as French, whereas the one thousand million meaning is mostly used in the English speaking world.

Asked 2 years ago

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Nick S.C1KwizIQ community member

Agreement of Past Participle when using Etre

In 'nous nous étions fait piquer' why does the 'fait' not need to agree with the subject?

Asked 2 years ago

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Vimal R.C1KwizIQ community member

Le coup d'oeil ou le coup d'œil?

Il doit être le coup d'œil, non?

Asked 2 years ago

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Sydney B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Answer in a quiz

I got a question wrong, with more than one fault:

Nous nous sommes brossé les cheveux was given as the correct answer, but isn't "brossés" the correct form of the past participle in this sentence?

Asked 2 years ago

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Kimber H.B2KwizIQ community member

On mene les personnes; on porte les choses.

Alors:

"Maman EMPORTAIT toujours beaucoup de....."

"Tu APPORTAIS tes poupées....."

Better to use correct grammar, esp. on a teaching site ...AIN'T that so?

Asked 3 years ago

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Mohammed R.A1KwizIQ community member

Cochant is a verb of imperative form or a noun? This word I can see as a verb with it conjugation but nothing similar with a form of cochant.

Could anybody help me with the form of the word: 'cochant'?

I have learned third person plural conjugation is cochent, but this word 'cochant' I couldn't find in a dictionary.

As you know, cocher is infinitive form of verb but what about cochant? Please!

The original context: "Répondez aux questions en cochant la ou less bonne response."

Please help me!

Asked 4 years ago

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Frank C.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Question about agreement

In the sentence, "Je vais me laisser tenter par la deuxième option qui a l'air vraiment intéressante à faire.", the adjective, intéressante, is féminine. I would have thought that this adjective is modifying the word 'air', which is masculine, rather than obliqely referring to the feminine noun, 'option'. Could you explain?

Asked 2 years ago

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Emily W.B1KwizIQ community member

Using on instead of nous

Hello,

Would you be able to use the 'on' form of the verb in a sentence such as 'my family and I watch a film - ma famille et moi regarde un film' or would it need to be the nous form - ma famille et moi regardons un film?

Asked 1 year ago

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H. A.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Two answers correct, but only one given

My comment is similar to Elizabeth's, so I hope your response will also be similar.

My answer to...

À ce moment-là, les étoiles ________ dans le ciel.

was "sont apparus". This is wrong because I didn't know that étoiles is feminine. But the only correction given was "ont apparu".

Asked 3 years ago

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Helena C.B1KwizIQ community member

La télé est bien mais l'aspirateur est bon?Reposting a question asked by Mark several years ago:
The example above "Quel est le meilleur aspirateur?" implies that l'aspirateur est bon, correct? Why would this not be "bien", like the case of "Ma télé est bien" above? It's not food.