French language Q&A Forum

Bonjour!

I noticed that in the sentence une femme heureuse at des femmes heureuses that the es was not underline like the others were. 

I was hoping if you could fix that and underline the es so it could help the reader whose reading it understand it better. It was 2x on the same page.

Nicole

I’ll just echo the suggestion to add the context (e.g. as described by Chris) to this lesson. Prior to reading the context I was thinking “we don’t even use this tense in English”. After reading it I realised that of course we do use it, and I could understand where it could be meaningfully used. 

1) Les enfants reviennent des États-Unis et de France  ('des 'because US is plural and  'de' as France is singular I assume)

2) Les enfants reviennent de vacances. (Here is 'de' used because it follows reveinnent or because vacances is singular in French?)

3) Elle se souvient des vacances en Espagne. (What is the justification for the use of 'des' in sentence 3?  Why is it not 'de' as in 2) above?)

In the question presented, it said she had missed her bus and therefore had to ____________.  I put "aller a pied" and the answer came up as "marcher".  This does not seem to agree  with the explication in the lesson.

Anna

What is the function of 'ensuite' in this sentence? It doesn't seem to appear in the translation ' we then rested for a few hours'. Perhaps it should be 'we then rested together for a few hours.'?

And while we're on that question, the correctEnglish option, you decorated your flat, is not available. You did decorate your flat is a bizarre emphatic response to a conversation that goes something like ' Who  decorated your flat?' 'We did' 'Oh, I was told it was done for you. So you did decorate your flat.' It's such an odd thing to say it's hard to construct a piece of fiction to illustrate it.

tu as fait decorer  is clearly being done for the subject, but as its not reflexive I assumed they did the decorating themselves?

pourquoi est incroyable devant la vue

Hi, why is “la plus grande partie” feminine? It seems to be “attached to” the male “siècle” more than to the female “devise”. 

faire les magasins and faire le shopping are, without further distinction, both correct.