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darwenmint@gmail.com K.C1Kwiziq community member

Is it cold?I've tried a couple of alternative ways to say this other than the stock "Il fait froid". I know they are not listed as alternatives, but are mine correct. 1. Il fait mal, can you say this as "Il fait bon" means it's warm/hot? 2 In my experience most native speakers I have met would usually say "Il ne fait pas chaud", or some highly contracted form.

Asked 8 years ago

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sue c.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

GrandAgain grand before or after the noun. Le grande homme I am told means the great man, one who is respected etc, whereas l' homme grand is the tall man. If we want to speficy that a person is tall do we have to place grand after the noun. thank you

Asked 9 years ago

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Gender of hyphenated nounsIn A1, there is a long lesson that tries to tell us how to infer a word's gender based on word ending patterns. Based on that, I can correctly guess that both "lave" and "vaisselle" are feminine, so why does dictionaries tell me "lave-vaisselle" is masculine ?

Asked 10 years ago

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Sydney B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Use of "autres" instead of "d'autres" or "des autres"

In the third paragraph beginning, "Dans les décennies qui suivent", the expression "autres" appears without a "d'" or a "des" preceeding it. According to the PwLF lesson, that's incorrect.

Asked 4 years ago

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Meghna J.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

C'est or Il/Elle EstSeriously lost on this one - you mention that C'est will be followed by a noun nd il/elle by an adjective yet in the practice test 'Tu aimes la couleur violette ? Oui, ________ est très joli!' expects the response C'est

Asked 9 years ago

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diane b.C1Kwiziq community member

LUI/ ELLE: stress or indirect object pronoun after parler à?I'm glad Stuart asked this. I'm confused too. Sadly I'm no further enlightened by the answer given here. If both stress pronouns and indirect object pronouns follow structures such as 'écrire à qqn', 'téléphoner à qqn' etc., how do we know whether to use 'elle' (stress pronoun) or 'lui' (indirect object pronoun)? Grateful for more clarification. Many thanks.

Asked 9 years ago

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Lucy L.A1Kwiziq community member

Why is “j’habite dans le New Jersey” correct, but “j’habite dans le Texas” wrong?

Asked 7 years ago

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Dean G.C1Kwiziq community member

Peut-on utiliser "nettement" au lieu de "clairement?"

Asked 9 years ago

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Alex M.A1Kwiziq community member

J'habite à Birmingham, en Angleterre.

Asked 10 years ago

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keneilwe M.A0Kwiziq community member

Je habite à Johannesburg en Afrique du Sud

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