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Daniel E.C1KwizIQ community member

Quiz question 'Ils ont besoin que nous ________ avant le début de la cérémonie.'Ils ont besoin que nous ________ avant le début de la cérémonie.They need us to arrive before the beginning of the ceremony.(HINT: Conjugate arriver in Le Subjonctif Passé)
Why does this question require le subjonctif passé, rather than merely the present subjunctive?Couldn't I just use this?Ils ont besoin que nous arrivions avant le début de la cérémonie

Instead:Ils ont besoin que nous soyons arrivés avant le début de la cérémonie ? But doesn't this translate as "They need us to have arrived before the beginning of the ceremony"?

Asked 2 years ago

Raphael P.B2KwizIQ community member

walk up to -> monterons?For "walk up to…", i used "nous monterons à l'aire de jeu". Is that incorrect? I believe we also use "monter" when walking up a road?

Asked 3 years ago

Liz G.C1KwizIQ community member

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

Asked 2 years ago

EDOARDO F.A2KwizIQ community member

Question sur en exercise

Salut, j'ai trouvè cet exercise:

"..... tableau-... est beau, tandis que ... tableau-... est horrible".

La livraison dit de completer avec un adjectif démonstratif. Merci a tous.

Asked 4 years ago

V L.C1KwizIQ community member

''Les livres auxquels je pense sont remarquables.'' (bonne réponse dans un quiz)

Salut a tous.

Ma question concerne l'utilisation du pronom "dont" ici. La phrase ci-dessus peut traduire comme soit "The books I think of are remarkable" soit "the books i'm thinking about are remarkable." étant donné que penser peut prendre la préposition 'de', cette dernière formulation permet l'utilisation de "dont", n'est-ce pas ? S'il vous plaît donnez votre avis. Merci en avance.

Vois ici: De qui/dont/duquel = of/about whom, of/about which - with prepositional verbs with "de" (French Relative Pronouns)

Asked 3 years ago

Martin B.KwizIQ community member

"en plus du maillot jaune" "on top of the yellow jersey" This translation could be confusing! "in addition to/as well as" might be better.

Asked 2 years ago

Leslie S.KwizIQ community member

activity in french for the letter k

activity in french for k

Asked 3 years ago

Tobias L.C1KwizIQ community member

Correct structure for this rule?

Would it be correct to use the three-layer structure I wrote down below, when building sentences with double pronouns? Imagine it like a matrix with three columns:

ME, TE, SE, NOUS, VOUS | LE, LA, LES | LUI, LEUR

Ex Nous vous | les envoyons demain. | e_m_p_t_y

Ex e_m_p_t_y | Je la | leur explique clairement.

Ex Je vous | la donne. | e_m_p_t_y

Ex e_m_p_t_y | Je la | lui donne.

Asked 2 years ago

Eugene M.C1KwizIQ community member

Need clarification Les soldes sont une aubaine pour se réinventer - doesn’t make sense to me . Maybe it should be se réinventorier? Please advise

Thank you

Best regards

Eugene

Asked 3 years ago

John B.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Strange verb formation following negationTHis sentence seems quite strange: "Je ne pense pas pouvoir payer mes nouvelles échéances." Two infinitif verbs following the negation 'pas', implying "ability to pay", followed by "my new new deadlines"

At a minimum, it seems like there should be a conjunction or a que to better structure the sentence.

Anyway, can someone translate/explain this sentence?

Asked 3 years ago

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