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Carol W.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

il les a tous lus

ive obviously missed something, but why do we need les here when tous means all (ofthem)?

Asked 4 years ago

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Lorie R.C1Kwiziq community member

"mais la Tour Eiffel s'incline face au vent"

I'm thinking there may be a mistake in the translation of this phrase:

"mais la Tour Eiffel s'incline face au vent"

The translation is given as "the Eiffel Tower tilts into the wind" but this doesn't make sense from a scientific point of view!

Asked 5 years ago

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Carole G.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

La Castafiore?

One of the quizzes has a sentence: La Castafiore faints (s'évanouir) all the time.

This question is totally unrelated to reflexive verbs, but I can't figure out what La Castafiore is. Can you give a little history on this noun, please? I enjoy picking up a little non-grammar knowledge from time to time. Thanks.

Asked 4 years ago

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Michelle C.A2Kwiziq community member

Why dérange not déranges?

Why is it “Si ça ne te dérange pas” and not “déranges pas”?

Asked 4 years ago

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Clive L.A1Kwiziq community member

Connaître

In the examples, to know a recipe uses connaître. When used in the quiz for pumpkin pie recipe, connaître is wrong and saviour given as correction. Please elucidate.

Asked 5 years ago

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Suzanne D.B2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Two questions about this exercise

Is it also OK to say:
Il on a besoin avoir du bois sec as we as il faut avoir du bois sec.

SEC is one syllable - I thought one syllable adjectives went before the noun?

Asked 5 years ago

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Brian E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Reason for hint? What am I missing?

Hidden in my bedroom, I'd tied the flowers with a pretty bow. HINT: Gaspard is speaking (man).

Dissimulé dans ma chambre, j'avais lié (or attaché) les fleurs avec un joli nœud.

Why do we have this hint? What would change if the speaker were female?

Asked 4 years ago

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Barrie S.C1Kwiziq community member

'En' versus 'dans'?

Just wondering why it's 'en matinee', but 'dans la soiree?'

Asked 4 years ago

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Richard S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Agreement with reflexive verbs in perfect tense

I wrote ´nous nous sommes brossés les cheveux’, which was marked as only partially correct. It should have been ´brossé’. I don’t understand why the ´s’ shouldn’t be there. Agreement with ‘nous’.

Can anyone help, please?

Asked 5 years ago

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A. C.C1Kwiziq community member

Avoir du mal avec...

Hello,

why is it j'ai eu plus de mal avec rather than du?

Also, why is it EU instead of AVAIS...

Thanks.

Asked 6 years ago

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