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John C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Naître in the present and past tensesOne of the test questions for this lesson is: Zoë est née avant Lèo. Zoë is born before Léo. Is this past tense translation correct because the speaker is necessarily speaking about a past event? Could we use the present tense here?

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Anna C.A2Kwiziq community member

Est-ce que'on peut dire - Je prend mon déjeuner?

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Sheldon P.B2Kwiziq community member

How do you translate " Je m'associe pour aimer mis pas pour hair""?

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Christine S.A2Kwiziq community member

Why is it: je vais leur téléphoner but tu détestes les entendre?

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Informal versionsIf the questions in this lesson sound formal and old-fashioned, what are the less formal modern equivalents? Perhaps you could add them to the lesson?

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John I.B2Kwiziq community member

Hi Laura - can you invert "n'avoir plus de" to form a question?ie - Don't you have any money left?

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Angela P.C1Kwiziq community member

I would have have thought you would have to say avec qu'il parle In the quiz the question was "la fille avec ... il parle " I chose laquelle but the answer qui was also expected. I did not choose that because the qui should have been qu'

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Use of "y"In one lesson (about the use of non plus) there was an example "Il ne joue pas souvent au foot, et toi ? -Je n'y joue pas souvent non plus." Please add to the lesson a link to the lesson that explains this use of "y" (had expected "en") - I'm familiar with y being used to refer to a previously mentioned location but this was something else.

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Manque de ?I keep getting this one wrong despite having read the lesson multiple times. What property of X determines whether it's "manque X" or "manque de X"? It says manque de in the lesson, but surely l'école is "something" but does not need "de"?

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Partitive articleIn this lesson I'd like to see something about why no article is needed on the thing that is missing. E.g why is "Je manque du argent pour payers mes factures" wrong?

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