French language Q&A Forum

Is there some logic whatsoever to these exceptions, or will they just require some good old-fashioned cramming? 

Les enfants, curieux, ---I conjugated third person plural fureter as furettent.  The correct conjugation is furetent [can't put accents here], but fureter is not on your list of eter and eler verbs that are conjugated in this way.  Is this an oversight or am I missing something?

ta ou ton acquisition

Line 7: My answer of vingt-huit was marked incorrect compared to Kwizbot's answer of ving-huit - no 't' at the end of vingt.

Lesson says only the 1st day of the month is cardinal, my test asked for the translation of May 1, I said le 1er mai, as per lesson...you said it was wrong and should have been le 1 mai...contradictory lessons!

Je adore LE Chocolat, but Je mange DU pain.  You are generalizing in both sentences.  I see no difference.  Why is it DU pain?

Somehow it was hard to understand the verbes after »elle » but of course it’s my fault, I need to study

'Je me souviens encore de la première fois' : could toujours be used as an alternative to encore here ?

When I took French in school I remember there being a confusion with leur and leurs around sentences such as "the men went to their cars" where there was a difference between each man going to his own individual car versus the cars being collectively owned by the group of men.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Or is it just "les hommes sont allés à leurs voitures" for both?