French language Q&A Forum

A couple of the examples appear to use être in constructing the past tense:

Yann est passé par ton quartier 

While others use avoir:

Nous avons passé une semaine

Martin hasn't been here for long

This suggests Martin is still here, thus the present tense should be used. Given answer is-Martin n'est pas arrivé depuis longtemps.

Compare this with the previous question:

We haven't lived here very long- Nous n'habitons pas ici depuis longtemps.

Have I mis-understood something? 

John M

"Il est bon", refers to the actor or the film? If it is the film, shouldn't it be "c'et bon"?

The fill in the blanks exercise was about people arriving in a new town, to find the streets empty of people. "Tous les magasins de la ville étaient fermés." This was followed by a sentence in the past tense (walking on empty streets from 3pm till 5pm) Then came the sentence being queried (post below).   Thanks so very much to all who responded earlier.

Is the second 'd' in "descendent" pronounced because in the audio file it seems like it isn't? (Les enfants descendent de la voiture) Or is it not pronounced because of the "de" succeeding it?

Why is the music so loud? it's offputting!

Should the line in the lesson stating:  

pires / mauvais / mauvaises  ->  les pires / les plus mauvais / les plus mauvaises

Instead be stated as:  

mauvais / mauvaises  ->  pires / plus mauvais / plus mauvaises -> les pires / les plus mauvais / les plus mauvaises

Je sais que cette phrase est correct mais je ne sais pas pourquoi.  Selon mon connaisance de ce sujet AUQUEL est à + lequel. 

donc le verbe ici c'est une locution FAIRE PEUR. est-ce que la structure de ce verbe est faire peur à qqn? si non pourquoi il a utilisé auquel et pas lequel?

I am confused. Sometimes Ayez is used sometimes Ayons is used.

For example "Ayez confiance mes amis" I was corrected from Ayons

But here is one example Ayons foi en notre force . 

Is there a rule or we just have to know, like vocabulary