French language Q&A Forum

Hello .

I was asking why is it .that some words are join when u speak them and other are divided when u speakin..why

Can you give some examples of the aspirated "h", as in when the h is aspirated vs. unaspirated at the beginning of a word? Thanks!

I have a question why do we put an arrival before a sport such as je faire du tennis isn’t du means some or off what does mean if we put it before the sport?

Why does yellow come before blue even though they are the opposite way round in the English text?

Hi all,

Why would one say "il me reste des croissants" when "croissants" is a plural word and "il me reste" is a singular phrase? Is this just an expression?

Is le passé simple used in daily newspapers and popular magazines or is it strictly reserved for use in literature? Merci!

is Comment tu t’appelles a subject or a verb

Can you tell me whether rire takes à or de interchangeably?  Today I had "Il rit à ses propres blagues".  Yesterday "Il rit de ses canulars téléphoniques".  I cannot see why there is a difference.  Thank you!

There were two cases in this exercise where I felt that my word should be acceptable but it was not given as an option:

1.Your answer: Janine était professeur de français avant; whereas mine was : Autrefois, Janine était....... Why would autrefois not be acceptable?

2. For such a short word, 'so' can be confusing. The English phrase was "so that wasn't too complicated!". Would ainsi be correct? I can imagine the english word 'thus' in this context.