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Why is it "Tarte au Maroilles" and not "Tarte aux Maroilles"?

Quelle est la différence entre les mots "shooter" and "shot" ? Les deux options ont été présentées dans les réponses. L’un est-il utilisé avec des noms et l’autre avec des verbes ? ("Shooter" was given as an option when using "pour la digestion" [what I used] and "shot" when using "digérer").

I found this sentence in a french textbook for kids.

Moi, je vais au cinéma. Et vous, vous allez vous promenez.

I wonder whether it is just a typo of promener or it means something else other than futur proche.

Hello,

I wonder how I should say: "I only told him about it" ? 

Is it: "Je ne lui ai parlé que de ca" (this is translated by deepL but it seems wrong to me)

Or should I just say: "I told no one but him" -> "Je n'ai personne parlé que lui"

Merci.

I spent a good couple of minutes trying to figure out what she was saying in the middle. I ended up submitting "Il fait trop chaud bon sauce bolognaise!" "Pour une" obviously makes more sense, but did anyone else have trouble making out those two words? It certainly sounded like "bon" to me.

On the introductory page of the dictée "Rendez-vous pour le contrôle technique", the word is spelled 'defectueux'. But in the body of the exercise, in section four where it appears, it is spelled 'défecteux'.

Am struggling to understand why the answer uses the present subjunctive of etre.

Thanks for any help!

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.

Why "a bu dans ma gourde"?  Drank in my flask?  Why not "a bu de ma gourde"?

In the case of "She's not joking. She's saying it seriously.", what is "it"? Where is the idea that "it" is replacing? "She's saying she's not joking seriously"? Or is it "She's saying it's not a joke, seriously"?

I understand that I have to use "le" here as the lesson is about replacing an idea, but the idea seems so disconnected that I can't nail down what "le" represents, or why "en" would not be just as valid.