French language Q&A Forum

Can you please explain when 'de' is used before a number in French? 

- La population a augmenté l'année dernière de 3,46,000 personnes. (Does it mean 'increased to' or 'increased by' here?)

- Le prix est de 500 dollars.

And, is there a general rule about using "de" before numbers? Please explain? 

In the last sentence pour sounds like au …. Infact in some other exercises also I have noticed that “pour “ actually doesn’t sounds like pour.

Hi, I don’t understand why one of the options is right or wrong.  Too many choices make this a difficult lesson. 

In "j'irai au Carnaval de Nice", why is the word "carnaval" capitalised.?

Their own website does not use a capital for "carnaval" in “le carnival de Nice”. 

See this page where there are 2 instances:

http://www.nicecarnaval.com/le-carnaval

although, strangely, in other parts of the page, in different contexts, the word is capitalized.

Hi can someone tell me the different meanings between these two sentences

elle n'a embrassé qu'Alexandre

elle n'a qu'embrassé Alexandre

and in an example given at the top of the page why the meaning was not explained within brackets like the other examples above and below it.

Nous n'avons regardé qu'un film.Should it of said Nous n'avons regardé qu'un film (and watched nothing else)

This is a really comprehensive lesson. Cécile even provided a list of words beginning with "h" in the comments above but included only nouns and verbs. It would be great if you added a list of adjectives beginning with "h" so we can see which ones follow which rules for "tout" all in one place.