French language Q&A Forum

Why does visite sometimes have an acute accent on the end, other times it doesn't? 

The text begins with present tense, but then why is it l'imparfait, when they are discussing menu. I didn't understand the reason behind it. 

What's the origin of se recueillir as a verb for "to meditate"? It seems so different than the verb recueillir meaning "to note" or "to collect". If one wants to say one is practicing meditation should one use se recueillir or méditer ?

En avril, ne te découvre pas d'un fil

Til April's dead, don't remove a thread (of your clothing)

In the exercise "The Town of Gruyères", the translation of "Before we even entered the picturesque village," is given as "Avant même que nous entrions dans le bourg/village pittoresque,". I think it should be 'nous sommes entrés dans ...'. What am I getting wrong there? Also, I'm aking my self, does an optional 'ne explétif' go before 'entrions'?

Hi all.  Can someone advise me as to when one uses ça as 'it' rather than le, la, l' eg. je le déteste or je déteste ça?  I have just done an exercise where the latter was used for 'I hate it', I would have used 'le'.  I can understand it being used for I hate 'that' but here it was used for 'it'.  Thanks in advance/ merci en avance, Kevin

What's the difference between attentione, attentif, prudent et soigneu. Always very confusing