French language Q&A Forum

Are "en tout cas" and "en tous cas" both acceptable ways of spelling this to mean "in any case". This exercise only accepted the latter, but I thought the former was correct. 

An example above :

Cette soirée s'est très bien passée.That evening went very well.
Isn't "that evening" a precise moment (a particular evening) ? 

Hi. I'm wondering about the sentence Elles ne se sont pas rasees cette semaine./ They didin't shave this week.  You would normally associate shaving with men, not women as in your example.  Wouldn't it be  better to change the subject of the sentence to ILS ne sont pas rases cette semaine, and a week being a long time to go without shaving, the end could be 

ce  matin, not cette semaine. and you would get a nice sentence 

They (men) didn't shave this morning.

How to conjugate sentences  with these?

The translation -' you went back to your childhood house' is not something we would say in english english. We would either say 'childhood home' or ' the house I lived in in my childhood'.  I'm trying to work out why this is and it has something to do with the word childhood as an abstract noun. Childhood is never an adjective.  ' Childhood home' is a kind of double noun, an inversion of 'home of my childhood' . I'm afraid I'm not a linguist so dont have the grammar to describe this. I just know it sounds very odd, and feels wrong.

Is récupérer interchangeable with acheter? Can I use récupérer for clothes shopping? 

e.g. Je vais récupérer une robe

I've seen both of these as phrases on Kwiziq:

Plus je mange du chocolat... (The more I eat chocolate...)

When do we use the article (la, le) vs de la and du. Specifically, why isn't "Plus je mange le chocolat" correct here?

1. Why can't we use " avec beaucoup des glacons" but we have to use " avec beaucoup de glacons ", why " les " disappears in this case ?

Ma soeur n'aime personne = My sister likes nobody. 

Can't this also mean My sister loves nobody, or how do you express the idea of loving someone/no-one?