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Thalia C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Confusing lesson

This is, by far, one of the worst written lesson on this site. It's confusing, too long, and the verbiage used to distinguish between the different meanings are not clear. I hate it when I read a lesson and am more confused afterward than before.

Clearly, I am not alone in this opinion!

Asked 5 years ago

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Catherine C.B1Kwiziq community member

Le primeur a des melons magnifiques.

From google translate 'Le primeur a des melons magnifiques.' is 'The scoop has magnificent melons'

I have no idea what it is suppose to mean. Translation please.

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Claudia A.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Permettre in Mes Reves de Confinement

Bonjour

In a verb fill in the blanks exercise Mes reves de confinement.

..., ce que me permet is the correct answer. Why isn't it permets ?

Is it because of ce?

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Niall H.C1Kwiziq community member

Incorrect Translation

The correct "City of Lights" translation for Paris in French is La Ville Lumière not La Cité des Lumières! You should fix this.

https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ville_Lumi%C3%A8re

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Catherine C.B1Kwiziq community member

Il fait trop chaud pour une sauce bolognaise !...avec un peu d'oignon et d'ail. - Il fait trop chaud pour une sauce bolognaise !

In this sentence, the word 'chaud' is referring the warm temperature outside, or does it mean spicy? as the words onion and garlic were mentioned preceding this.

Does the word 'chaud' means spicy as well as high in temperature just like in english?

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Abi B.A1Kwiziq community member

Clarification of example

I don't understand how "Marie a manqué l'école" means "Marie didn't go to school". There isn't aller in the sentence so how does that work?

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Robert M.C1Kwiziq community member

I wrote « ...une bière qu’on a brassée soi-même. » with the extra ‘e’ in brassée. I was thinking « la bière que j’ai brassée »?

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Park J.A0Kwiziq community member

Here it said that the translation for 'lively' is 'vivant' in each of the options for translations. But is it not possible to use 'animé' instead?

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John C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Does the futur proche also require le futur after quand and pendant que?

Bonjour,

I think that the Futur Proche follows the rule in this lesson but I could not find any confirming examples. Can someone confirm that the following sentence is correct?

Je vais nettoyer l'appart pendant que tu seras partie.

Thanks,

John

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Neil H.C1Kwiziq community member

Using y or là for there

Can you say Tu n’y étais pas instead of Tu n’ étais pas là to mean You wern’t there?

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