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CrystalMaidenC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Why is the weekday pluralized at " tous les mercredis? "I was taught earlier that you're not allowed to pluralize weekdays like that. Is it because of the tous les structure? Also, I think it'd help if the lesson advised you to pretend the subject pronoun is there before the verb but after the person name to make conjugating easier: " Jean and I, we went to the cinema = Jean et moi (nous) sommes alles au cinema. "

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CrystalMaidenC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Are you not allowed to just use avoir besoin de or maybe on doit in the same context?

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BenC1Kwiziq community member

Quiz question Le bureau de poste est ouvert aujourd'hui ________ onze heures.

The answer given was 'de dix à'.

Why is it not 'de dix heures à' ?

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CrystalMaidenC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

I thought you used un peu for a few, not quelques.

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CrystalMaidenC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Sometimes French just uses moi, not moi-même. What about that?Take this sentence: " Je veux bien le garder pour moi... " instead of, moi-même. I saw this in a French game.

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CrystalMaidenC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

In English: We use subject pronouns, really? Didn't know that.

My daughter and they play together.

I thought it was, " them, " not, " they, " in English. I'm confused. I'd use Hugo and them, never Hugo and they. Huh?

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JohnC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

In the example in which they sweep the floor before we come, why is it nous ne venions instead of nous venions? Why is ne there?

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ReneB2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

L'ancienne pronociation

Je suis curieux. Savez-vous si le "ds" et le "d" se prononçait auparavant, dans l'ancienne pronociation française ?

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StevenB1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Alternative NumbersJust a fun fact for those who might not know - A lot of Swiss and Belgians will use septante (70), huitante (80) and nonante (90) to replace soixante-dix, quatre-vingts and quatre-vingt-dix

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DA2Kwiziq community member

Je me demande, n'est-ce pas la même chose en anglais? "as in French you cannot have a noun without article." ou "without an article"?

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