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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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Barbara B.C1Kwiziq community member

La dictée À la laverie automatique

Dans la dictée À la laverie automatique, je crois qu'il y a une erreur. Laëtitia parle et elle dit :- Je suis sûre.... mais dans le texte, vous avez écrit "sûr". Comme elle est une femme, j'ai écrit "sûre" et on m'a corrigée.

Asked 5 years ago

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Michelle P.A2Kwiziq community member

Danser sur de la musique électronique

sur de la musique - dancing on the music? Can anyone shine a light on this please?

Asked 2 years ago

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Lori K.C1Kwiziq community member

A vs aux

Why une brosse a dents and not aux because dents is plural?

Asked 2 years ago

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Angela D.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Faire les coudes

As an alternative to en bousculant les passants, couldn’t you say

En faisant les coudes aux passants ?

Asked 5 years ago

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Claire M.A1Kwiziq community member

Equivalent to sports?

Is it the same as in sports where if you do it in general its faire but if you're doing it in the moment it's jouer?

Asked 4 years ago

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Carol L.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

multiple items in these answers

Why is italienne not capitalized in the phrase "de la Renaissance italienne?" Also, why is the article "le" not used in the first mention "de Florence en Italie", but is used in "ses carnets duvoyage sure l'Italie" ? Has "medicine" gone out of usage for the designation of medical doctor and has "docteur" supplanted it? "Docteur" is applicable to non-physicians (e.g., those with PhD's) and is there another designation for them? Thanks.

Asked 5 years ago

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Mark P.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Why is this wrong?

Can anybody explain why this is wrong?.. I can see pour as an alternative but why is pendant wrong here as it is, surely, expressing a duration.

Par exemple, la semaine prochaine, pendant Pâques, nous ferons une chasse aux œufs en français !

Giving "pour" as correct.

Asked 5 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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