French language Q&A Forum

The object will be singular following a negation. In this case the object is the `sa collection. But a collection is inherently plural ins de jardin rather than nain de jardin. but why is the collection de nains and not des nains?

I would have thought that 'la fois dernière meant 'the previous time, not 'the final time'

Why does it keep switching between passé composé and imparfait?

e,g, Il portait un costume, but il s'est très bien comporté.

Elle devait lire un poème, then quand j'ai fini de lire

Why doesnt the video play? It says 

The boys cut out "des poissons," why do they stick "les" on their friends' backs instead of "en"? 

When I listened to this I heard faire de bruit and wrote that. However, I then double-checked the hints/vocabulary look-up which listed faire du bruit. So I changed it, and of course that was wrong. What version is more commonly used in French?

I was doing the quiz and there was 2 answers that were the same. I picked the first one and got it wrong because it was the second one. Can someone fix this?

You explain the sound of é as the first half of the vowel in ‘name’. Why don’t you describe it as the vowel in english words like fit or in?