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quelques (plural)
Used with countable things it means a couple of, some, a few.
Il a quelques livres à lire.He has a few books to read.and peu de means little, not much of, few
Nous avons peu d'argent.We have little money.We don't have much money.Elle a peu d'amis.
One of the question as they have a car, is it 'Ils ont une voiture' or Ils a une voiture'?
Just an English correction - in "Anne never play basketball" it should be plays or played.
While reviewing, I came across this question... "How best to say 'He loved this book!'?" Since the question was multiple choice, the answer that it expected was obvious. But isn't l'imparfait better suited for this example than passé composé? When someone "loves a book", it is not a brief, one time thing. They don't love the book and then forget about it the second they put it down. It is more likely that he loved the book for years, until he died. Or if he is still living, he continues to love this book. It just seems to me that an emotion is a rather bad question choice for passé composé.
This is a perfect example of vocabulary/explanation that should be given ahead of time -- I'll bet that way more than 90% got this wrong! If you do not speak French fluently, you would never think of expressing "To think that by now" is expressed as "Dire qu'à l'heure qu'il est"! Help us be better students by explaining expressions such as this!
I am struggling a bit with the use of these, for example "You need a new bike" I would have thought either correct but the quiz says only besoin de is correct. Have tried reading other threads but none the wiser.
It's great that Christmas gets a mention in this lesson. However, in the 500+ tests I've done I don't remember a single question mentioning Christmas. There have been questions mentioning Aid, a fair few mentioning Hanukkah and loads mentioning Thanksgiving. Please add a few questions involving Christmas! I believe it's considered rather an important festival in the USA, as well as the UK and elsewhere.
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