French language Q&A Forum

Salut, i am confused as to why homework translated as devoir instead of devoirs Is it because homework is treated as uncountable and/or plural in French? I assume it's a one, countable, homework thats why I didn't think of it being devoirs.

Merci beaucoup pour votre réponse !

Est-ce ta trousse ? - Oui, c'est la mienne. 
Is this your pencil case? - Yes, this is mine.

In the above example, how is la used?

From my knowledge, le/la/les can be used for the following reasons:

1. to say 'the' as a definite article
2. to generalize (la vie est compliquée - life is complicated)
3. as a direct object pronoun (le - him, la - her)

does the usage of la come under any of the above categories or is it used in a new way that i must learn?

In the exercise entitled "A Book Lover," there is a phrase "...rien qu'en observant ses grands frères et sœurs." When I entered that spelling, the s's at the ends of "frère-" and "sœur-" were marked as incorrect even though they were present in the correct example.

In passing, if Damien indeed only had one brother and one sister, would we have to say 'son frère et sa sœur'?

Thanks a lot.

I'm wondering why "ça ne fait rien" was incorrect when saying 'it’s not problem?

HI there, long time fan, first time commenter. 

I have no idea what 'that's it' is supposed to mean in this context? It isn't a phrase I would ever use unless used in the following scenarios: 

"That's it! You've cracked the case." (When referring to a previous piece of information or clue or input).

"That's it. I've had enough." 

"That's it. I've been looking for it everywhere" (here I would use 'that's the one' instead).

Could you please provide an alternative of what this is supposed to mean? As this translation feels awfully unnatural to me. Is this a specific phenomenon that can't really be translated or is situational? As I would never say "That's it. She finally got her results" in this way?  

Why am I not putting an e at the end (a tenu and not a tenue if we're speaking of a féminine thing)?

For reading excercises, please add perhaps five multiple choice questions so we can test our reading comprehension skills? Merci

This is not a good lesson. Nowhere is it stated what we are supposed to be learning here. There are just some examples and we're supposed to figure out the differences between them in order to ascertain what the lesson is.