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Danica W.C1Kwiziq community member

Quel âge as toi?

Asked 7 years ago

Drew B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

De vs Du Sel"Il s'est passé de sel." Why "de sel" and not "du sel"? There's an inherent negation utilized by figuratively "going without" but not formal/grammatic negation via "ne...pas."

Asked 7 years ago

AurélieKwiziq Head of French, Native French Teacher

Susan asked: "When is the word "président" capitalized in French?"

Asked 9 years ago

Ashley A.A1Kwiziq community member

J'habite en Roumanie.

Asked 10 years ago

Van M.A1Kwiziq community member

Billet et ticket

What is the difference between billet and ticket

Asked 2 years ago

Margaret M.A2Kwiziq community member

Gender of droit in directions

I noticed in the exercise "droite" was used for direction to the right, but "tout droit" is masculine for "straight ahead. Why the difference?

Asked 6 years ago

Heyes S.C1Kwiziq community member

You can’t say very fun’ in English as fun is a noun

Asked 6 years ago

Almut H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Comment ça se fait qu'il faille se subjonctif avec cette construction?(Sorry, couldn't resit.) Into which category does this example fall. It is obviously not a conjunction that triggers the subjonctif here and I also don't see any of the verbs that normally ask for subjonctif - or anything else I've encountered so far with respect to the subjonctif.

Asked 10 years ago

Terence O.A0Kwiziq community member

When would you use << faire >> as compared to other verbs? For example, "I am making a cake" as compared to "I am baking a cake". I guess I'm asking whether it's safe to substitute << faire >> for other French verbs that I haven't learnt if in English the verb can be replaced with "doing" or "making".

Asked 8 years ago

Stephanie S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Definition of plusieurs

I am having the same difficulty as others here--my definitions of the English words don't match the definitions used in the lessons, so it's hard for me to wrap my brain around the translations.

One particular translation I am confused by is "plusieurs". I learned that to mean 'many', and that is how Google Translate defines it, but in my writing exercise "plusieurs défauts" for 'many faults' was marked wrong, and the lesson says it means 'several'. Is that right? It's so confusing!

Asked 5 years ago

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