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Pooja C.A2Kwiziq community member

Query on a quiz question

In the quiz, one of the question was translating ''Nous ne sommes pas arrivés depuis longtemps.''

I selected "We din't arrive for long" which is marked wrong.

The right answer was "We haven't been there long". Doesn't this sentence mean "we have just arrived"?

If so, in the lesson, Ne ... pas + Passé composé + depuis longtemps = not in a long time.

Aren't these contradicting. Can someone explain or clarify please. Thanks.

Asked 5 years ago

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Mark P.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Nous sommes avant vous dans la queue."?

I think, in English we would say "l am in front of you ".. "before you " does not sound correct.

Asked 5 years ago

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David B.C1Kwiziq community member

Correction needed?In the lesson we are given plural examples and the singular examples are next, so shouldn't "(Note that y can replace plural things too)" be "(Note that y can replace singular things too)"?

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Paris K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

à, en, sur

bonjour forum et les experts

Au sujet de la phrase suivante 'je devrais être en train de boire un expresso en (à une) terrasse

je comprends bien la phrase, mais je demande pour quoi on ne peux pas l'écrire avec un 'sur' en place d'un à ou un en. N'est-ce pas aussi correct, 'je devrais être en train de boire un expresso sur une terrasse'?

Asked 6 years ago

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Anna J.C1Kwiziq community member

Test result contradicts lesson

Test question:

How would you say «This computer works the best»? Cet ordinateur marche ________.

The answer is given as mieux.

But the lesson says:

Use meilleure when qualifying something as good/better/the best at what it does, i.e. efficient/practical, or good/better/the best in taste (food):

Quel est le meilleur aspirateur?Which is the best vacuum cleaner?

Why is it right for a vacuum, but wrong for a computer?

Asked 5 years ago

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Danielle A.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Quelle belle chanson!

Je préfère celle de Serge quand même :)

Asked 2 years ago

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Cher H.A2Kwiziq community member

brûla pendant huit jours. = burned for eight days.L'huile, qui ne devait brûler qu'un jour, brûla pendant huit jours.The oil, which was supposed to burn only one day, burned for eight days.I have a question in one of the quiz of this lesson, I don't have problem with the use of qui. I just want to know what tense 'brûla' is in. It isn't passe compose nor imperfect. I can't figure out what tense it is.

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Tom G.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Is enchaînerai a typo?

In the third to last sentence, "puis j'enchaînerai avec quelques séries d'abdos," is "entraînerai" the correct verb? It means to work out or be in training so it seems to me it would be more appropriate here. Enchaînerai means to "be linked", in this context, does that mean to "follow or continue with"? Thanks.

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Maria Isabel B.A1Kwiziq community member

how do I insert the accents in the words, my computer does not allowed

No puedo poner los acentos en las palabras francesas que hago?

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Erika H.C1Kwiziq community member

Passé composé vs l’imparfait

Why is passé composé used in the first sentence, Je n’ai jamais aimé… ? If you never have liked the seaside, not before and not now, isn’t that an ongoing feeling and should therefore be in l’imparfait? Isn’t it also expressing an opinion and should be in l’imparfait? What am I missing?

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