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StuartB1Kwiziq community member

How can you be more specific with pain?E.g., with knee pain it’s usually the left or the right knee rather than both. What do I add to say the right knee, or left eye, or front tooth etc. I guess the latter involves prepositions ...

Asked 6 years ago

StewartC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Pourrais-je avoir un peu de lait? Why is it not 'du lait' as in "pourrais-je avoir du lait?"

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NevB2Kwiziq community member

Should plumeun in feather pillow be plumeux?

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Kyaw A2Kwiziq community member

Ton assiette. 'ton' is masculine. Right? So why we use 'elle' in the example?

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DaveB1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Tu te lavais ?Tu te lavais ?.....can this also be read as "you used to wash yourself?"? Thanks in advance for any help.

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DukeB1Kwiziq community member

Please explain "Il lui (verbe)"Bonjour! I'm trying to improve my French through reading, and I've encountered a problem that I don't think was covered in my lessons. I keep seeing the following structure used in a sentence: "Il lui (verbe)." For example: "Il lui manque la montié d'une oreille et ses yeux sont... ." I unferstand this sentence to mean "He is missing half of an ear, and his eyes are... ." My problem is that I can't figure out why such sentences are using "Il lui (verbe)" instead of just "Il (verbe)." Another example is "Il lui arrive même de nous faire cadeau d'un rat." Could you please explain (1) is "lui" is being used as a stress pronoun in this case? And (2) why is it being used at all? Marci! -Duke

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RandolfA0Kwiziq community member

je viens de manila.

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DamienB1Kwiziq community member

lent as adverbThis lesson says -ent adjectives become -emment adverbs. However a previous lesson said lent becomes lentement as adverb. Are both spelling forms accepted?

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Tom RuneC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

The preposition "de"Is the preposition "de" needed whenever "faire exprès" is followed by an infinitive? Whereas with conjugated verbs we can do without "de"? Or is it more complicated than that?

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Tom RuneC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Can "en" ever express waiting?I understand the examples given in this lecture (although I'd have like "en" to be contrasted with "pendant" as well), but can "en" ever mean "in" as in "I'll leave in one hour"? Or should I forget completely about using "en" in that sense?

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