French language Q&A Forum

I keep seeing "s'est" and such, but I don't know why it's used. I can't understand the meaning behind it, and I also see "s'est terminé" when terminer isn't a verb that uses etre when conjugated into passé composé.

I had exactly the same problems with the  pronunciations mentioned. Even at the very beginning I could swear she said, 'je rendais visite à' (I was visiting) However it was all good fun imagining what she was trying to say and I cetainly got the gist of it all.

Why was it necessary to use the 'passe compose' of falloir here? 

Referring to: j'ai semé de nouvelles graines que j'ai recouvertes de compost 

Someone once shared a list of French verbs (probably from the lawless French) which take the preposition 'de' to denote "to do something with/by another thing", where intuitively one would want to use 'avec'. For example: 'La ville est entourée de collines.' Here, the natural translation is 'The city is surrounded by hills. Along the same line: 'Le jardin est recouvert de neige.' --> The garden is covered with snow!

Can anyone please share that list here also?

pourquoi pas "je n'y manquerais pas pour rien au monde"? does manquer not work here ? i thought this was a standard phrase to use. 

It really sounds to me that the speaker is saying ``Sophie, au va....`` I know it doesn`t make sense but it really sounds like that`s what he`s saying. Can you please check?

Can we say: un radicalement nouveau style de vie ?

Because I remember that the adjective 'nouveau/nouvel/nouvelle' positions before the noun it qualifies. 

Can you please explain the difference in meaning between "Tu peux ne pas venir." and "Tu ne peux pas venir"?