French language Q&A Forum

Duolingo gives a sentence: 

"You will have to not make a lot of errors during the exams."

The sentence is awkward and the given answer is:

"Il ne faudra pas faire beaucoup d'erreurs pendant les examens"

but It also accepts:

"Il faudra ne pas faire beaucoup d'erreurs pendant les examens"

as you suggest it should be above.  Are both forms acceptable when negating the first of double verbs, is this a unique situation, or is there another explanation?

I love how the audio has a female voice saying each of the feminine nouns, and a male voice for the masculine ones.  I expect that actually will help us to remember the gender for these listed body parts if we play it a few times -- thank you! 

The audio files don't match the following two sentences:

Bonne idée ! Leurs glaces sont excellentes !

question was write 25 to midnight, previously been told that past noon should use 24 hour clock so wrote vingt-trois trente-cinc , but yet again it wrong and said minuit moins vingt cinq

The sentence above is used by philosopher Martin Heidegger in his letter to Jean-Paul Sartre in 1945. Why did he use Le Passé Composé, though "depuis" is used? 

Hi

I have a few questions regarding this exercise:

1. The phrase 'je me suis sentie méprisée' - I was a little confused about whether to make 'senti' or 'méprisé' agree with the female speaker.  In fact I got it wrong, as I see that both should agree.  Could you explain the rule, or do you have a lesson I could look at for this?

2. what is the meaning of 'de l'instrumentalisation du vote barrage'?

3. what is the meaning of 'voter blanc'?  I have a good idea but would be very interested to hear an explanation.

Thankyou once again, dudes of Lawless French for an interesting dictée, with some good new vocab.

Megan

Hi. 

In the recent subjunctive test one of the ‘blanks’ involved an answer to be inserted  after ‘à moins que’.

I filled in the ‘blank’ to include ‘ne’ before the verb . ie ‘ne soit’.

I was taught that after ‘à moins que’ you must add ‘ne’ before the subjunctive verb.

My test result marked my answer as incorrect. 

The answer did not include ‘ne’. Which is correct please ?

Pourquoi pas , "mon sac à dos"

I wrote "et je revêtirai les vêtements confortables" and it corrected it to "et je mettrai les vêtements confortables". Why can't I use the verb revêtir here? It's the word I always knew for "to put on [clothes]" and according to my dictionary that's exactly what it means.