French language Q&A Forum

Can I say 'je suis en train de lire ce livre' if I am reading the book but not actually at that moment?

Why we use "va" instead of "vas"? I thought it was "vas" since they communicate with "Tu".

What does this term mean in the context of a hotel and restaurant ?   BTW, thanks for another challenging C1.  I cannot yet imagine understanding all of this without the possibility of repetition.   Still plodding along with a score of 57/80 with considerable repetition required.

Could someone please clarify the rule for choosing between à laquelle and de laquelle in a sentence such as: 

"The girl I'm thinking of is Isabelle." : La fille ________ je pense est Isabelle.  "

I understand that they both translate "about/of whom" but they are not interchangeable. 

Thanks in advance!

Kalpana 

hi, 

I took the test and i understand that Switzerland is feminine but why is there a masculine pronoun ils at the beginning? ils detesent la suisse. Shouldn't it be elles not ils?

thanks

nicole

I spent a while trying to understand this sentence, as there are several examples given later on with "que" or "qu’" at the beginning, eg qu’est-ce ?", "que veut-il ?"and indeed those starting "qu’est-ce que". I reckoned it only applies to your first group of sentences where intonation, rather than inversion is used to ask the question - is that right?

The examples use avoir but the text says use etre - I am confused 

Why does the sentence "quatre jolies filles" have the adjective before the noun?

(I know this question is not related to the topic of this article, but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent example in the relevant article.)