French language Q&A Forum

“Sa mère et moi l'avons seulement assistée avec les démarches administratives.”. Hi, ”sa mère” (mother is female) “et moi” (“moi” is the father, who is male) “avons assistée” (first-person plural passé composé). We have a mixture of male and female forming the “we”, so should the past participle be “assisté” and not “assistée”? Thanks. 

Given the sentence: 'Gwoka combines music, singing and dancing' to translate I used 'allie' which I did consider as a synonym to 'combine', yet it was marked as a mistake...
I am confused though, was it really wrong?

Hi, with reference to “la Belgique a la plus basse proportion de McDonald's par habitant.””

In French, is the apostrophe really used in this way? It looks like an English possessive apostrophe. 

It’s some consolation to me, having read all the submissions, that I’m not the only one having difficulty with this concept. Has the reconstruction, promised a year ago, been implemented yet? If not, may I make a suggestion? How about, instead of asking "If she could fly, she would go to the moon.", ask instead "If she was able to fly, she would go to the moon.”?

Under “nous avons pu réinvestir les dons qui nous étaient parvenus”, the “voix passive” lesson is listed beneath it, and not the “plus que parfait” lesson. 

But isn’t it that case that this line is an example of plus que parfait, and not of voix passive?

This may seem like splitting hairs, but I find the listed lessons very useful even just from their titles, to guide my understanding of the grammar. 

It may just be me but the lesson on Tout is a good example of what I find confusing about some (otherwise crisp and excellent) Kwiziq lessons: it’s not always clear what the green rule is referring to. Sometimes it comes before the examples, sometimes after (eg tout + adverb here). Sometimes it flips multiple times in the same lesson. It may be better to connect the red and green lines so they form a bracket around each formalism. I get that would require quit a lot of editing of existing lessons. Perhaps we could crowdsource that if you open the platform. 

I do not understand why se faire is used in the case.

Nothing is being done to or for - rembourser.

Hello, thank you for the wonderful site. 

I noticed a possible typo in the English in this exercise: "to include to Quebec's popular French in general." I don't believe the second "to" is necessary. 

Thank you again!

One of the examples in this lesson reads, "Tu vis en dehors de la ville." I was wondering about the distinction (if there is any, subtle though it may be) between saying that and saying, "Tu habites en dehors de la ville."

This distinction, as explained, is very tricky for me. I don't grasp the difference in meaning.  Oh well....