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MarnieC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Aigü and aigüeThe example uses masculine and feminine endings but in your "instruction" there is no mention feminine v s masculine...only the NOT derived from verbs... become -üe in the written form, but are pronounced in exactly the same way as the masculine form." Could you clarify this?

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StewartC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Imparfait v Passé Composé

This week's Weekend Workout (31-08-2018) has a question and answer as detailed below.

The translation for 'we arrived' is given in the imparfait but surely it should be in the Passé composé as they arrived only 'once' and not as the imparfait implies 'used to arrive' meaning they arrived on a regular basis i.e. more than just on the one occasion.

Could you please explain.

When we arrived in the changing rooms,

Quand nous arrivions dans les vestiaires,

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Carmen A2Kwiziq community member

"que mon copain m'aurait préparé avant de partir" Why is the verb préparé in the past tense and not in the infinitive tense?

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RenwaA1Kwiziq community member

why "nous" and "on" aren't followed by the same conjugation of the verbso is it wrong to say on sommes gentille ? and why ?

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