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Jim L.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Corrections for À versus A

There seems to be a little glitch with the answers: For "À chaque fois..." and "À la place..." the corrections mark À as wrong, and say that one should have used "A" with no accent in both cases (though it does go on to say that you 'could' have used "À").

Surely that's not right? Surely this will always be À ? Or am I missing something fundamental that I've never noticed before? I note that in the full text afterwards, "À chaque fois" and "À la place..." are used as I would have expected....

Asked 6 months ago

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Raksha K.A2KwizIQ community member

Partitive articles

Hi,

Is "de" a partitive article by itself? That is, without being used as "du/de la/de l'"? I ask because of the following example

J’ai bu beaucoup de café.

here: https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/partitive-article/

Is it a preposition?

Asked 6 months ago

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Swathi V.A1KwizIQ community member

Cet/ Ce - les deux mots quelle est ton difference? expliquer sil vous plait!

J'apprends le francais. Et moi est un debutant. Alors, Je cherches deux mots cet/ce.

Asked 6 months ago

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Patricia C.C1KwizIQ community member

Conditional of préférer

Why was "préférerais" marked wrong when it is what I believe to be the conditional, i.e. second "e" has an acute accent not a grave as you has said.

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Steve B.A2KwizIQ community member

How do adverbs derive their gender?

How does an adverb derive its masculin or feminine form? The adjective derives it's gender from the noun it is describing, but when the adjective is turned into an adverb, where does the gender come from?

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Blaise P.C1KwizIQ community member

Determinants before adjectivesEn effet, être capable de parler le français accroîtra votre employabilité, ce qui ouvrira vos chances de travailler dans différents pays francophones.

My instinct was to put a 'de' in front of 'differents' in this sentence. Can I do it?

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Blaise P.C1KwizIQ community member

Translating 'including'Le français est aussi reconnu comme langue de travail dans de nombreuses organisations internationales, parmi lesquelles les Nations Unies et le Parlement européen.

Can I say "y compris" instead of parmi lesquells or dont to translate including?

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Cindy G.C1KwizIQ community member

placement of prochaine

why "la semaine prochaine" but "ta prochaine soirée costumée? (why not "ta soirée costumée prochaine"?)

Asked 6 months ago

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Deborah G.A1KwizIQ community member

Use of tenir for loving dearly

I saw this translation in one of my exercises

Je tiens à ces boucles d'oreille comme à la prunelle de mes yeux.I love these earrings dearly.
Why wouldn't it be someting like "J'adore tellement ces boucles d'oreille?"
I don't understand the verb tenir in this context

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JC Y.B2KwizIQ community member

Difference between tard and en retard

Bonjour! Mon frère est arrivé ________ chez le dentiste ce matin !

My brother arrived late at the dentist's this morning!

In the quiz, the correct answer was "en retard", while "tard" was marked as wrong. May I know why "tard" cannot be used in this sentence?

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