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C. M.C1Kwiziq community member

Mal vs. malade

My understanding is that J'ai mal à + noun is physical pain whereas Je suis malade is more like "I am sick" (perhaps with a flu or cold). Can you please confirm whether that is correct?

As well, it would probably be useful to either link to a lesson that explains être malade or have another section in this lesson that explains the difference for future students!

Asked 5 years ago

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Olive J.A1Kwiziq community member

How do I say it in the past? I got up,I brushed my teeth.I bathed

Asked 9 years ago

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Ann H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

jouer au tennisHow can it be almost correct to say this when the lesson lists it as a way to say it???

Asked 8 years ago

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Cade B.A2Kwiziq community member

"on" vs "tu" and "vous" for you"I have been taking the writing challenge to test it out for future use with my students. I notice that when translating a 'you' statement the correct responses never include the option for using 'tu' or 'vous' and instead rely on using only 'on'. I understand the benefit of teaching the impersonal 'on' but feel that the 'tu' and 'vous' versions of the sentence should also be counted as correct. The 'on' pronoun in my understanding of spoken French is more commonly used as 'we' though it of course can be interpreted in many ways. I wonder if requiring it to be the only translation accepted for a 'you' statement might be leading the students toward a misunderstanding of the pronoun. Thanks for listening! I love the product so far."

Asked 8 years ago

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Paula B.C1Kwiziq community member

devoir imparfaitSo if we use the conditionnel passé to translate 'should have' how do we use devoir in the imparfait?

Asked 8 years ago

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

De vs enAre these competely interchangeable for specifying what something is made of or are there pronounciation rules that indicate which one is better for a particular word?

Asked 9 years ago

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Çağrı Y.A2Kwiziq community member

parle a moi vs il me parle

Il parle rarement mais il ________ tous les matins.

a) parle a moi

b) me parle

What is the difference? I choised A but answer is B.

Asked 6 years ago

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佳欣鮑.B1Kwiziq community member

Company in French

Isn’t company “entreprise”? Thank you for answering.

Asked 6 years ago

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CHARLOTTE P.B2Kwiziq community member

which is correct regarde-me or regarde-moi. I see examples of regarde-la in the lesson so it would be a do pronoun but I have seen regarde-moi as well

Asked 7 years ago

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Thy M.B1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

When to use Futur Simple and Futur Antérieur?

Hello,

I learnt in another lesson that after "Quand" usually + Futur simple (Quand/pendant que + future tense (Le Futur Simple) - not the present tense = When/while I do something in the future (Sequence of Tenses in French) ), but in this lesson it is + Futur Antérieur. So how do you know when to + which tense?

Or are there cases where they can be used interchangeably?

Thank you.

Asked 3 years ago

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