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Anne D.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Grammar questions

1 nous avions chaussé nos après-skis: I’m guessing this means they were shod in snow boots, but was curious why après-skis is pluralised with an s on the end - nos après-ski was marked wrong.

2 Les enfants étaient tout excités : I should know, but if the children were girls, would it be tout excitées or does the adjective have to agree with "enfants"? It was a good opportunity to revise the complex rules around "tout" modifying an adjective!

Asked 6 months ago

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Aashpreet K.A1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Subjonctif Example in Lesson

In this example - Le temps que nous arrivions, mon avion était déjà parti !

Why is it not - "Le temps que nous soyons arrivés..." because it means By the time we arrived... Why Subjonctif Passé is not used?

Asked 5 months ago

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t u.B2Kwiziq community member

Why do I see people say "Quel/Quelle est la/le ........?" but in this exercise it is always marked wrong?

Why do I see people say "Quel/Quelle est la/le ........?" but in this exercise it is mark wrong?

Asked 1 year ago

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Anne D.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Ils, elles forms?

I can’t find anything in this lesson or links about third person plural verbs. It would be useful to have examples of this as well as the situation of il/ elle + inversion for verbs ending -ter (which is mentioned in a question below). Am I right in thinking the inverted forms are eg achètent-ils and achète-t-il?

Asked 7 months ago

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MARTIN B.A1Kwiziq community member

"le compère" translated as "old Pa". Does compère have a different meaning to accomplice/fiend in this context?

Asked 10 months ago

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Adrian B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Gender agreement

In the sentence "Oui, je me suis maté toute la saison 1 en un weekend," why is the "maté" not "matée"? Female speaker, reflexive verb?

(Also, the pronunciation of "1" in that sentence seems clearly "un" rather than "une".)

Asked 8 months ago

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Paris K.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

L'usage de dont vs selon laquelle

Je ne comprends pas comment la phrase, 'c'est la manière dont les Français cuisent leur viande', soit correcte.

Je pensais que 'dont' s'utilisait pour exprimer les propositions anglaises, 'about, of, etc'. Par exemple, dans la phrase 'la fille dont vous m'avez parlée hier'. Dans cet exemple je comprends l'usage parce que ça signifie la fille 'about whom' you spoke yesterday.

Mais dans le cas de, 'c'est la manière dont les Français cuisent leur viande', je ne vois pas le sens de 'about whom ni of', effectivement je ne vois aucune proposition après le verb 'cuisent', et c'est pour ça que je suis confus.

Asked 6 months ago

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chiara b.C1Kwiziq community member

What is the difference between ça and cela? I tend to use cela because when when ç needs to be a capital vowel it is difficult to use it

What is the difference between ça et cela ?

Asked 7 months ago

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G. S.A2Kwiziq community member

Using ‘Ainsi’ as « that’s why »

For example : Can « Ainsi le nom » mean « that’s why the name.»?

Asked 1 year ago

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