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Val M.B1Kwiziq community member

Sound on grammar videos

Hi, Just checking. - Are the grammar videos supposed to have soundtracks? Mine are silent and I've checked all my volume controls. The sample phrases are fine, though. Best regards, Val

Asked 6 years ago

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Mehaj R.A1Kwiziq community member

Why samedis...

Tous les samedi or tout les samedis

Which one is correct

Asked 5 years ago

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Maggie E.C1Kwiziq community member

Why is and used and not et deux grandes oreilles ?

Asked 5 years ago

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Mary Anne B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

The Bahamas are not in the United States.

There are many beach resorts along America's coastlines, including the very tropical Key West, Florida. While the Bahamas are very close to the mainland of United States, the most interesting American beaches may be in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, namely Hawaii, but many would dispute that in favor a beloved local beaches.

Bonnes vacances

Asked 5 years ago

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Janine H.B2Kwiziq community member

Bien que je ne sois pas d'accord.How would you say "You went out even though I wasn't OK with it." ?

Tu es sortie bien que je ne sois pas d'accord.

This is the correct answer, but shouldn't "sois" be in the subjonctif passé, since the English is "was"?

Asked 5 years ago

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Brian E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Function of “ne”With reference to “Ma nièce de 13 ans, elle, ne jure que par Soprano”. I see that “jurer que” means “swears”, giving us “My 13-year-old niece swears by Soprano”, but what is the “ne” doing there? I don’t think it’s the “ne explétif”, and I also don’t think it’s meant to create a “ne … que” ( = only) structure. But how & why is it there?

Asked 2 years ago

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Aditi Amulya M.Kwiziq community member

What is India called in French?

Asked 2 years ago

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Hasan D.A1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

can we use the "pire que" after the verbs?

normally we use the "pire"(which means worse) for comparative the adjectives) but can we use it like that
je nage pire que toi=I swimworse than you

does it works like that?

Asked 6 years ago

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Carles L.C1Kwiziq community member

When can we use the past tense with the "bien que" phrase?

I got this question:

How would you say "You went out even though I wasn't OK with it." ?

And I answered with this:

Tu es sortie bien que je n'étais pas d'accord.

Apparently the right answer was Tu es sortie bien que je ne suis pas d'accord, but I don't understand why je ne suis pas d'accord is in the present tense.

To me that sentence means "You went out even though I'm not OK with it.", as in "I'm not ok with in general", but the way the English sentence is written in the question means that the speaker wasn't ok about a particular going-out. Why would one use the present tense there even though the "not being ok with it" was done in the past?

Asked 3 years ago

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Adrian B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Faire plus infinitive

The model text uses "ont fait transféré"—should that not be "ont fait transférer"? (As another thing, I don't think "saisi" should be translated into English as "seized" in this context: more like "informed" or "apprised".)

Asked 4 years ago

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