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Richard S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

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Would be more useful is we could see what gender were countries starting with a vowel.

Asked 4 years ago

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Zuzana D.A2Kwiziq community member

chaque samedi/ le samedi

Hi, can I use le samedi instead of chaque samedi. I've read that an article is used with days of week when an action is repetitive.

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Amanda J.A2Kwiziq community member

The verb punir

I took a quiz that asked this question:

Les garçons ? Oui, elle les a ________ . The boys? Yes, she punished them.HINT: punir = to punish

I understand the lesson, the verb punir is to be conjugated to agree in number and gender with the direct object it's replacing. But the passe composé conjugation for punir is "puni," according to your conjugation page. (ex: je "puni" tu "puni" .... nous "puni" ... ils "puni.") So how is the correct answer "punis" ?

Asked 4 years ago

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Jack G.C1Kwiziq community member

Consistency of answers

There were several alternate answers to 'I was taking an exam this morning' and they all used the word 'un exam' But in the full text presented at the end, it became 'un examen'. I have noticed this sort of disagreement every once in a while.

Thanks, Jack

PS. The writing exercises are extremely helpful !

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Jordan P.C1Kwiziq community member

c’est bon vs elle est bonne

One of the tests has this question:

“Cette pomme est bonne.”

“Oui, c’est bon.”

And I fail to understand why “Oui, elle est bonne.” is wrong when we are clearly talking about a specific apple...?

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PewDiePie g.A0Kwiziq community member

cannot identify words

i cannot identify words which as masculine or feminine??

please help me!

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Maarten K.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

No reference or examples in lesson to cover 'la douzaine' or similar

Anique asked a question 12 months ago on this - I think the point of raising it was that although it can be deduced (or guessed) from the lesson, there is no reference or example in the lesson that covers 'la douzaine' or similar, other than 'etc' at the end of the title. It would be worth adding a line or two to cover this in the topic.

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PewDiePie g.A0Kwiziq community member

i am new at french and a am having problem with conjucating verbs even though i was learning french in school gor 4 year

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Julian B.C1Kwiziq community member

More manquer confusionSorry, I'm still not understanding the difference between "Je manque d'argent pour payer mes factures." and "Il me manque deux euros pour pouvoir l'acheter." Their contexts seem identical. The lesson talks about the second construction being "impersonal" and "not mentioning a lacker" but that doesn't seem right.

What am I missing?

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J. T.C1Kwiziq community member