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Mike L.C1Kwiziq community member
"pour pouvoir te faire goûter" Why no definite article for it?

The translation is "so you can try it" where is the "it"?

Asked 2 years ago
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manpreet kaur j.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Enlacées or S’enlacées

Since girls are hugging each other… why are we not using s’enlacées  ? 

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Derek C.C1Kwiziq community member
Not ending with a preposition

In another French course, some years ago, I was given the sentence :

"Ça fait trois ans que je l'ai, et je n'ai pour ainsi dire pas eu d'ennui avec."

This appears to end with a preposition.  Is it wrong?

Asked 1 year ago
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Carl C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
j'ai toujours eu or j'avais?

Why do we use j'ai toujours eu for "I have always had"?  My understanding is the passe' compose' of avoir implies "I got" more than "I had".  If we want to say "I had" we should use j'avais.  

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F. M.B2Kwiziq community member
I'm finding the grammar explanations difficultThe grammar explanations describe accurately. When I studied French I had not had a great education including in English so my understanding of the grammar explanations was not great and still isn't. My French got better through sheer repetition on my own part in private study and by living in France for the best part of a year. In other words there was a large amount of learning what is correct and not necessarily why, followed by what sounds right because I lived there long enough and in only francophone company to know. I am sticking with it, I just am also listening to France 24 en direct on Youtube as well because it's how my French improved so much between year 2 and 4 of my degree back in the day. I found in this exercise I was translating differently, sometimes because I'm so rusty, sometimes because the colloquial language has changed and sometimes because I used a different way of expressing it. It is honing my French again but I am wondering if to use aller faire instead of the future tense is as wrong as this exercise suggests i.e. was I supposed to remember it was to practise the future tense or were my translations really as wrong as it suggested?
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manpreet kaur j.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Use of de ?

Why are we using  de in front of faisons  in the last sentence ? 

Asked 2 years ago
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Frank C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Missing nous

In the passage, ”...nous nous sommes tous assis pour partager un festin”, I only hear one nous.

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Jillian M.C1Kwiziq community member
A general question

Why is it 'cote d'Azure' but 'cote atlantique'?

 

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Anuel D.Kwiziq community member
(boire) Anne et Damien 1 of 1 beaucoup d’eau.(boire) Anne et Damien 1 of 1 beaucoup d’eau.
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James W.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
couple of other questions

why is it 'elle faisait son jogging' and not 'elle faisait DU jogging' ? 

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