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Pierpaolo P.B1Kwiziq community member

"veut" vs "a envie de"

Instead of "Benjamin veut être bilingue un jour" I tried "Benjamin a envie d'être bilingue un jour."
This sounds correct to me, but it was not offered as altenative.

What do you think?

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Christopher J.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

I can't make this make sense

How can "Ils partent leur travail à 17 h" be wrong and only "Ils quittent leur travail à 17 h" be right? I don't see a specific rule as this type of question was used for both parter and quitter.

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Philip G.B2Kwiziq community member

English questions

In today's quiz all the content was in English! I am already an Anglophone...

Was that a glitch, was there an English/French toggle I didn't see or what?

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Peggie H.A2Kwiziq community member

Clues are off

The clues do not match the text.

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Jonas F.C1Kwiziq community member

Alternative phrasing

Instead of "après avoir couché le bébé", could I also say "après de coucher le bébé"?

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Navtej L.B1Kwiziq community member

I've been learning the language for about 2.5 months now and I've quite improved in my reading, speaking, writing, and but not in my listening

I don't know why but I am just not able to get what the other person is saying in french. Like my listening is not improving at that pace

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kevin Y.C1Kwiziq community member

pont seems to be masculine and feminine in same sentence

In the sentence "Bien qu'il ne reste qu'une petite partie du pont aujourd'hui, elle offre encore une vue spectaculaire sur le Rhône et la ville." it seems le pont is masculine but in the second clause is is referred to as elle. Should this be il or am I missing something?

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Frank C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Question about punctuation In the first sentence, Bonjour is part of the sentence. In the second sentence, we have Bienvenue as a stand alone and not part of "Nous avons..." If the person had replied Bonjour instead of Bienvenu, would Bonjour be included in the second sentence, i.e. Bonjour, nous avons... ? Similarly, the last sentence includes bonne visite. How does one know when to include these sort of expressions in the sentence or to have them stand alone ?

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Frank C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Question about agreement

In the sentence, "Je vais me laisser tenter par la deuxième option qui a l'air vraiment intéressante à faire.", the adjective, intéressante, is féminine. I would have thought that this adjective is modifying the word 'air', which is masculine, rather than obliqely referring to the feminine noun, 'option'. Could you explain?

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Pamela L.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

De la célèbre comptine

Can you say 'd'après la célèbre comptine'?

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