French language Q&A Forum

is there a reason the s is kept at the end when normally dropped for an order- or just one of those things?

An Englishman (as distinct from an American) would say "five hundred AND thirty".

Please direct me to "The correction board if appropriate)

Unless he wants one rather than (say) two billion euros, an English speaker would say "... a billion euros."

(If I should use the correction board, please tell me where to find it!)

The basic lesson here is very easily understood: regions/states/counties are either feminine, masculine, or plural, (just as countries and continents). "En" is used to express "in/to" with feminine regions/states/counties ; "dans le" is used to express "in/to" with masculine regions/states/counties. Suisse cantons have their own system which is also very clear.

I think the challenge all of us learners are having is knowing whether an area is masculine or feminine. I was able to answer both questions in my first test of this lesson only because I was familiar with la Bretagne, (from "la Grande Bretagne"); and having lived in Nimes and Montpellier as an exchange student, (many, many years ago), I remembered that it was "Le Rousillon"

Is there a website or a list somewhere of all the U.S. states, the provinces and regions of France, Canada, Great Britain, etc. and their genders? It would be immensely helpful. For example, I learned from the lesson examples that Illinois and New Jersey are masculine, but I don't know about the state of Missouri where I live, (just across the Mississippi from Illinois).

Thank you for your help. Even though it is a bit challenging, this is a great topic.

Hi,

I think i'm beginning to understand this part of the section of adjectives with complements. I made a sentence une langue difficile a apprendre. is that coorect to write and I also wrote un garcon courageux comme un dragon.

thanks

nicole

There's a lesson on A1 telling to use le/les/l' when talking about body parts.

Why on this sentence "et je regarde mes pieds" we use 'mes' instead of 'les'? It is already known whose feet it is on 'je regarde' so I got confused on why the lesson says to use 'les' while on this exercise it is 'mes'.

Thank you!

when we say the more X, the more Y...we dont need le or la? to indicate "the" like "the more i run, the more i am happy" 

Shouldn’t it be Viens-tu      Also achètes-tu     

With respect, I think that this lesson fails to make a clear distinction between the many different ways of using "to miss" and "missing" in English and "manquer" and "rater" in French. I suggest that the lesson be broken down and recreated as several lessons, each with a clear learning objective. 

These sentences are so similar that I don't understand why one uses "avoir" and the the other "etre." Don't they both have a direct object? "He walked down (the boulevard)", and "she went up (the hill)". I'm missing something!

Il ________ descendu le boulevard St Michel.

Elle ______ montee la colline.