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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 ?

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Advika K.A1Kwiziq community member

Je suis indienne.Est ce - que je suis correct

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Que/quoiThis lesson tells us to use Que at the beginning, or Quoi at the end of a question. So what about the phrase "Quoi de neuf ?"

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Cary G.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

above, "Claire knows how to drive" is not listed among the answers. Shouldn't it be? Cary

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Elena H.A1Kwiziq community member

J'ai faim, et je mange. J'ai soif, et je bois d'eau.

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Reem H.A1Kwiziq community member

Hello, I still can't tell when to use "tous"!

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Melody S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

The table is labeled oppositely to another I have seenhttp://leconjugueur.lefigaro.fr/conjugaison/verbe/s%27asseoir.html The lists here are numbered oppositely to the link above (1st form 2nd form). The Figaro site says: La réforme de l'orthographe de 1990 autorise à écrire le verbe asseoir sous la forme assoir. I don't know the conventions of the figaro site- thus I don't know which form is the pre 1990 one, and which is post 1990. I don't know enough about verb conjugations to guess which is for s'asseoir and which is for s'assoir (same applies to this lesson). It would be helpful to give info here as to which is which. Kwiziq uses Connaître, which according to figaro is the pre-1990 version (as do other teaching sites I've seen). Same for figaro http://leconjugueur.lefigaro.fr/conjugaison/verbe/connaitre.html It says however: La réforme de l'orthographe de 1990 autorise à écrire le verbe connaître sous la forme connaitre. By comparison with s'asseoir and s'assoir, there's hardly any difference in conjugation of connaitre vs connaître (circomflex).

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Ally R.C1Kwiziq community member

Je suis, tu es, il/elle/on est, nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont

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Iman c.A0Kwiziq community member

what is the difference between savoir and connaitre ?

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Melody S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

C'est à moiI seem to remember another lesson that talked about the the sort of construction above. Something like Whose suitcase is this? (French translation appreciated)- C'est a moi. = It's mine. I have trouble remembering the "names" of the different types of pronouns. Would it be possible to add a link to the lesson that discussed à moi, à toi, etc. ?

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