French language Q&A Forum

As we are doing translation practice here and we can check our mistakes here and correct it at a same time.....and if we have another document to translate and we do translation of that document at that time how would we know, it's right or wrong and if it's wrong then how can we correct it????

Is there any suggestion or any helpful method???

I always try to translate short stories from English to French but after completing it I get confused it's right or wrong..............

Why is it "de jolies cartes romantiques " and not " des jolies cartes romantiques "?  It seems like it should be parallel with "des boites" and "des bijoux".  Thanks.

Hello, how is the word ‘fence’ spelt in French? I wrote clôture and was marked wrong.

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Hi,

I did yesterday's 'fill-in-the-blanks' exercise entitled, 'Un projet de voyage en famille' which consists of putting verbs au futur simple. 

Kwiziq dinged me for writing, "Les filles se bronzeront à la plage pendant que je nagerai." Kwiziq wanted, "Les filles bronzeront à la plage ..." ; no 'se'. 

When l checked dictionaries, l found that some included 'se bronzer' and some did not. Which is interesting.  And,  two key French dictionaries validated 'se bronzer' as being a valid option for 'to tan' : Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (online) and Larousse, https://www.larousse.fr 

I wonder, might some consideration be given to adding 'se bronzer' to Kwiziq's database? Thanks.

Kwiz question " we see her tonight"  answer "nous la voyons cet soir".   I think it should be "nous lui voyons...if you follow the quick lesson.

Chers amis, 

Please clarify my doubt.  Mon école est à côté des appartements    or    Mon école est à côté d'appartements

Which one is right?   does de gets contracted to des or changes to d' as appartements starts with a vowel. 

Thanks in advance. 

I was taught that, in addition to "Elle croit que c'est une mauvaise blague," "She (thinks it/ believes it to be) a bad joke" can also be written "Elle croit à une mauvaise blague." A visit to context.reverso seems to bear this out, whereas this lesson says that "que" is always required. Is this lesson perhaps missing a note of exception, or am I misinformed? 

Is the pronunciation of the 's' optional in tandis que?

Ce n'est pas que juste une histoire. C'est le vrai chef-d'œuvre chocolat-poétique !

OK. I see that this has been asked and answered below. I still think that you could use either construction:  (a) Non, je ne le sais pas.  (b) Non, je ne sais pas le faire. 

Similarly, it looks as if you can use both forms with the first example too:  (a) Non, je ne sais pas le faire.  (b) Non, je ne le sais pas.