French language Q&A Forum

This was a question in one of the quizzes:

Il m'a offert une boîte ________ bijoux pour ranger mes colliers.

Yes, for introducing me to some new expressions, i.e. "tu n'as pas l'air dans ton assiette", "j'ai du mal à fermer l'œil" and "de fester de marbre".  Now, to try to use them!

Can "Ces" be used to describe for both masculine and feminine nouns?

Je pense que Madame Lambert a besoin d’un nouveau vétérinaire!

I translated this exercise perfectly but scored zero. That was I misunderstood and found the exercise difficult to interpret.

This sounds like an opinion to me. I thought it should be in the imparfait. Could someone kindly shed light on this for me?

Is there any way of speeding up the audio to something more akin to proper speech?

dont la renommée rayonne encore:

whose reKnown still shines → whose renown still shines

If reflexive verbs always use the auxiliary verb 'etre', why is it 'Quand elle m'a embrassé' and not 'Quand elle m'est embrassé'