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Blaise P.C1Kwiziq community member

Cette école a depuis acquis une réputation prestigieuse

Here depuis serves as an adverb? Can I use the present l'indicatif to construct the sentence? Thanks.

Asked 4 months ago

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Elizabeth P.A2Kwiziq community member

how do you ask "who do they love?"

"Qu' aiment-ils?" is this What do they love? How do you say "Who do they love?" ?

Asked 4 months ago

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Hans W.A1Kwiziq community member

en ou y

I was struggling because London is a place and usually you replace a place by y at the same time I recognized the "de" which triggers en

Asked 3 months ago

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Blaise P.C1Kwiziq community member

Plusieurs questionsThank you for this beautiful exercise where there was almost a one-to-one correspondence between the English and French, and instructions were given where they were due. I enjoyed completing it. I have a few questions. 1. In this sentence: 'mon mari m'avait offert une belle édition de la pièce d'Oscar Wilde "Salomé”,' in this sentence, can I enclose the word "Salomé” between guillemets? Is there a rule in French when to use inverted commas and when to use guillemets to quote something? 2. When a creative work is produced/done by someone or some entity, can we also use the preposition 'par'? For example: un documentaire par Radio-Canada? Un roman par X, des œuvres par Y. In this case precisely, la pièce par Oscar Wilde? 3. I used the same sentence as stated here: 'ces motifs exotiques et étranges qui paraissaient couvrir la toile', but the system corrected me from 'couvrir' to 'recouvrir'. 4. This is most important to me: I struggle to figure out when to use a 'pronom tonique' and when to use 'indirect object pronoun.' For example: 'un musée qui lui était entièrement dédié à Paris', I am tempted to write: 'un musée qui était entièrement dédié à (can I use consacré à as well here?) lui à Paris' in keeping with literal translation from English. Is it always the case that 'à qqn' / 'de qqn' is always replaced by an IOP? In a similar fashion, can't I say 'Je me vous souviens' instead of 'Je me souviens de vous'? 5. Is the adverbial pronoun y only present in the "Il y avoir" to translate the "There is" structure? To translate, "There exists...", "There remains...", we don't need that? I am sorry for the lengthy set of questions. Thank you for your patience.

Asked 3 months ago

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Leigh F.C1Kwiziq community member

Tenir vs garder

How do I know which to use our of tenir and garder in any particular context, please?

Asked 1 month ago

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Andreas S.B2Kwiziq community member

A space before an exclamation point.

Hello,

In this exercise, when I put a space before the exclamation point following '2011', it was marked as wrong. Is this an exception because the sentence ends in a number, or rather, should there always be a space before an exclamation point in French?

Thanks a lot.

Asked 2 months ago

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Ted M.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

What about liaison with words that begin with vowels?

The lesson could also address how ‘qui’ and ‘que’ liaison with words that begin with vowels.

Asked 3 months ago

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Roshni O.B1Kwiziq community member

Penser à quelque-chose

Pensez-vous que les fantômes existent ? - Oui, nous ________ pensons.

In the quiz, why is the answer 'le' instead of 'y'. I thought it was 'penser à quelque-chose'.

Asked 2 months ago

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Barbara G.B2Kwiziq community member

Need for article

Ce produit est inférieur au nôtre.

Why "au nôtre" rather than "à nôtre"

Asked 4 months ago

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chris w.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Je veux en profiter avant que ma fille ne grandisse.

My question is about the use of 'en' here. Does this sentence refer to something previously mentioned, the subject from which the speaker wants to benefit? Is it connected to the use of 'de' with vouloir?

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