French language Q&A Forum

Bonjour !

Prepositions are my downfall...

Is it better to say " Dans "  or  " Aux"  as in Dans les Caraibes or Aux Antilles ? Or are both equally acceptable ?

Merci

For example why don’t we say « je pense que tu sois gentil » instead of « Je pense que tu es gentil »

Thanks in advance :)

Does anyone know why you say: 

Je joue du piano but then you say: Je joue de la harpe

Does anyone know what the rule is for if you use Je joue de la or Je joue du?

Il a attendu jusqu’à ce qu’il doive partir.

If subjonctif requires 2 subjects- I assume that “he” waited until another “he” had to go?

this was over my head I know, but I enjoyed trying.

Bonjour à tous et à toutes: 

J'aimerais savoir pourquoi on a utilisé le "de" devant le mot vie au lieu du mot "ma" dans la phrase ci-dessus.  Merci d'm'avoir aidé.  Don

"Je mange des algues et je nage souvent avec les poissons." There both indefinite and definite articles in this sentence. Why not, "Je mange les algues et je nage souvent avec les poissons," or "Je mange des algues et je nage souvent avec des poissons?" And also, "J'aime bien aussi collectionner les coquillages." Why not, "J'aime bien aussi collectionner des coquillages?"

The suitable choice of answers in this exercise for translating "new people" was either de nouvelles personnes, or des gens nouveaux. Can nouveau/nouvelle therefore go both before and after the noun? And in every case? I have learnt that gens is an extraordinary "hermaphroditic" word where I believe that adjectives that precede it are generally feminine and adjectives that succeed it are masculine (les bonnes gens, les gens courageux), but I thought that nouveau/nouvelle was an adjective that standardly goes before the noun, so I thought that in this case de nouvelles gens would be the option instead of des gens nouveaux? Thanks.

The very useful subjunctivisor of Lawless French advises that the verb espérer que when used in the affirmative = no subjunctive (usually in the future tense), whereas espérer que when used in the negative or interrogative = subjunctive. So in this exercise shouldn't it be "Espérons qu'il aura raison"? (as she is definitely affirmatively hoping for this result). Or is the imperative another case where this verb takes the subjunctive? And if so, is this the case for other similar verbs like penser que? And also in the tu and vous forms of the imperative as well as the nous form? Thanks.