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Olivia H.B1Kwiziq community member

How do you know when to use the future simple versus aller+ infinitive?

Asked 8 years ago

John C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Naître in the present and past tensesOne of the test questions for this lesson is: Zoë est née avant Lèo. Zoë is born before Léo. Is this past tense translation correct because the speaker is necessarily speaking about a past event? Could we use the present tense here?

Asked 8 years ago

Anna C.A2Kwiziq community member

Est-ce que'on peut dire - Je prend mon déjeuner?

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Sheldon P.B2Kwiziq community member

How do you translate " Je m'associe pour aimer mis pas pour hair""?

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Christine S.A2Kwiziq community member

Why is it: je vais leur téléphoner but tu détestes les entendre?

Asked 8 years ago

Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Informal versionsIf the questions in this lesson sound formal and old-fashioned, what are the less formal modern equivalents? Perhaps you could add them to the lesson?

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John I.B2Kwiziq community member

Hi Laura - can you invert "n'avoir plus de" to form a question?ie - Don't you have any money left?

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Angela P.C1Kwiziq community member

I would have have thought you would have to say avec qu'il parle In the quiz the question was "la fille avec ... il parle " I chose laquelle but the answer qui was also expected. I did not choose that because the qui should have been qu'

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Use of "y"In one lesson (about the use of non plus) there was an example "Il ne joue pas souvent au foot, et toi ? -Je n'y joue pas souvent non plus." Please add to the lesson a link to the lesson that explains this use of "y" (had expected "en") - I'm familiar with y being used to refer to a previously mentioned location but this was something else.

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Manque de ?I keep getting this one wrong despite having read the lesson multiple times. What property of X determines whether it's "manque X" or "manque de X"? It says manque de in the lesson, but surely l'école is "something" but does not need "de"?

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