Nous faisons du waterpolo vs Nous jouons au waterpolo?Nous ________ waterpolo.
We play waterpolo."jouons au" is marked incorrect and "faisons du" is correct.
Yet your explanation says to use "jouons au" for a sport that you play regularly. "We play waterpolo" means we play it regularly. That's an unambiguous English sentence. There is no other way to translate that. No English-speaking person would use the phrase "We play" for a single incident. They'd say, "We're playing waterpolo." This seems like a bug to me.
Even the article you link to earlier in this discussion uses "jouons au" for waterpolo. Either you need to explain this better or change the quiz answer.
ETA: In fact, if you type "We play water polo" into Google translate, it says "Nous jouons au water polo." If you google "jouer à vs faire de" you get this explanation:
To remember when to use each verb: if the sport involves a ball, use jouer. If not, use faire.
Someone brought this up 3 years ago. You updated the lesson 2 months ago. This should've been addressed already.
Could you provide additional explanation for this: When the time expressed uses hour numbers above 12 (in the "24-hour clock" -> 13h, 14h...), you use instead quinze, trente, quarante-cinq, probably for pronunciation (and elegance) .
I am having a hard time understanding these translations in the examples of a 24 hour clock.
Il est seize heures quinze.It is quarter past four PM.Il est quinze heures trente.It is three-thirty PM.Il est dix-neuf heures quarante-cinq.It's quarter to eight PM.I don't understand why we use "j'en ai pour" ? What's the reason behind this?
It says standalone adjectives after c'est are always masculine.. what if the word is feminine, does it just not work ?? like c'est belle? or c'est fantastique??
We play waterpolo."jouons au" is marked incorrect and "faisons du" is correct.
Yet your explanation says to use "jouons au" for a sport that you play regularly. "We play waterpolo" means we play it regularly. That's an unambiguous English sentence. There is no other way to translate that. No English-speaking person would use the phrase "We play" for a single incident. They'd say, "We're playing waterpolo." This seems like a bug to me.
Even the article you link to earlier in this discussion uses "jouons au" for waterpolo. Either you need to explain this better or change the quiz answer.
ETA: In fact, if you type "We play water polo" into Google translate, it says "Nous jouons au water polo." If you google "jouer à vs faire de" you get this explanation:
To remember when to use each verb: if the sport involves a ball, use jouer. If not, use faire.
Someone brought this up 3 years ago. You updated the lesson 2 months ago. This should've been addressed already.
I found this exercise too easy to be a B2 level.
Why has 'Mort' as the past participle of Mourir changed spelling to 'mour' ? I understand adding the 's' to make it match.
Even in the 'learn & discuss; section, it show the past participle as 'mort'. is this an error ?
J'allais ecrire "de nombreux" mais j'ai change ma reponse a "beaucoup de". Ma question est tout simplement pourqoui pas "beaucoup de" ? Est-ce que la phrase "de nombreux" est meilleur dans ce cas ?
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