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This came up in the examples of the use of stress pronouns: Ma femme et toi êtes meilleures amies.  But why is it 'êtes' and not 'sont'?

Hi! This is not a question regarding grammar but more of a cultural question. In many languages, the changes of the social understanding of gender has also changed the way we use grammar. In English, we don't use gendered adjectives, but it's common now to use gender neutral pronouns such as they/them, in Spanish we use the letter -e instead of -o or -a to make adjectives gender neutral. Is there anything similar in french? 

Use of "des" in  "Vous êtes les parents heureux" is not understandable, can we use "les" in place of "des"? if not why?

regards,

rahul

Why is it LE feu d'artifice and not les feux d'artifice?

Why was vingt-deux heures et demie marked wrong?  Also, I wrote "riait" which you indicated to be wrong but the answer was "riait"!

Why is it in passé composé : 

Tu n'as pas eu froid ? 

and not imparfait : 

Tu n'avait pas froid ?

In this case, why is parlé not parlée? Kwiziq says that "Note that the contracted forms of de + quel (duquel / de laquelle / desquels / desquelles) agree in gender and number with the object they refer to. "

Merci!