(Edited) To include or omit certain partitive articles and prepositionsRegarding this exercise: (https://kwiziq.learnfrenchwithalexa.com/my-languages/french/exercises/overview/1966 "A French Lunch Menu")
My answers "saumon avec riz et brocoli", and "poulet avec frites et petits pois" were marked as correct, when the final text gave "saumon avec DU riz et DES brocolis" and "poulet avec DES frites et DES petits pois", as the translations, respectively. My question is, on a french menu, is it more common to keep the second/third/fourth, etc. partitive articles in a dish name, or to drop them?
(Part of my confusion was that my responses were marked as correct, (with no alternate answers given), however the translation given at the end of the exercise differed from my own, as noted above).
Thanks in advance!
Can you say:
Je suis allée à Paris ainsi que à Bordeaux.
Hello,
Can anyone suggest a best-practices methodology for using the site to improving in a systematic way?
Perforce of circumstances, I'm learning on my own, but hope to get off the B1-B2 plateau that I've settled on via my piecemeal learning.
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La liberté d'expression est un droit fondamental mais il faut ________respecter les limites.
To me, this is saying that we should be respecting the limits of “freedom of expression,” not the limits “of expression.” So shouldn’t the correct pronoun be “la” to reference “la liberté d'expression”? Thanks for helping me to understand this.
I consulted Reverso for the translation of two propositions from this lesson:
1. Dinner will be served within an hour
2. Dinner will be served in an hour's time
Both produce the same french phrase:
Le dîner sera servi dans une heure
My question: why Kwizbot showed error to my translation into English that read “Dinner will be served within an hour”
une fin de semaine prolongée les aideraient ou une fin de semaine prolongée leur aiderait
Regarding this exercise: (https://kwiziq.learnfrenchwithalexa.com/my-languages/french/exercises/overview/1966 "A French Lunch Menu")
My answers "saumon avec riz et brocoli", and "poulet avec frites et petits pois" were marked as correct, when the final text gave "saumon avec DU riz et DES brocolis" and "poulet avec DES frites et DES petits pois", as the translations, respectively. My question is, on a french menu, is it more common to keep the second/third/fourth, etc. partitive articles in a dish name, or to drop them?
(Part of my confusion was that my responses were marked as correct, (with no alternate answers given), however the translation given at the end of the exercise differed from my own, as noted above).
Thanks in advance!
The given translation of "It's green" is "C'est vert". But surely usually it would be "Il est vert" because normally "green" applies to a specific thing. If you were talking about a landscape perhaps it could be "C'est vert", but in any case "Il est vert" should not be marked as wrong, should it? If it should, then your advanced lesson on the difference needs clarification.
If you want to say "I think about my wife". ChatGPT suggests I say "Je pense à elle", instead of "Je lui pense".
It says "Je lui pense" can be grammaticaly correct but it's too formal, old or used in literary.
However, this lesson says nothing about this. Can anyone explain this?
Is the pronunciation of "nombreuses années" in the first example correct? To my ear it sounds odd to emphasize the "es" when making the liaison.
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