French language Q&A Forum

I'm very familiar with the expression, "faire le menage". I chose to write "faire le nettoyage" to see if it would be accepted and it was marked wrong. The alternative phrase given was, "...mon marie et mois allons nettoyer..."

Larousse defines "nettoyer" as a transitive verb in which case doesn't "nettoyer" need a direct object? In that case, is "L'apres-midi mon mari et moi allons nettoyer et nos enfants vont ranger leurs chambres" correct?  Don't you need to say "...mon mari et moi allons nettoyer la maison..."?

In English, the verb, "to clean" is both transitive and intransitive which differs from the French.

Merci et Bonne Continuation

Hi I have to choose between 'en' and 'y' to complete the following - on _____ revient tourjours contents.     Is it 'en' because or 'revenir de' or 'y' because there is no 'de' here? 

My score was "You scored 0 out of 60 - hmm, missed your coffee this morning?!" yet it was actually my best one yet..I am not sure how to submit a ticket for this.

Can you explain why bocal is not accepted.  When I researched the word, jar, bocal seemed more specific than pot.  When is a jar a bocal and when is it a pot ?  Is it the size of the jar?

Is the usage of devoir for 'supposed to do something' used more frequently than censé or être censé?

You should not be grading us on punctuations. This is ridiculous.

Bonjour! I am a bit confused about the example without à. In what context would you skip it? Merci! 

In the example:   "I always liked you."  You give the answer:  Vous m'avez toujours plu.

I think it should be:  Je vous avez toujours plu.

I know that the verb "manquer" uses a strange inversion of the subject and object, but I don't think that applies to "plaire". Does it??

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I'm adding into what Avery said about how this grammar point could use some clarification, as I find this one particularly confusing as well. Thank you Avery!

It's unclear that some activities can be referred to by both faire and jouer. I only figured this out because I got dinged on a test for not knowing that basketball is one of these. I do see that the examples show this, but an explicit explanation would be nice. Or a list of common activities and whether they are faire or jouer would be helpful. 

The section on faire de la danse vs danser could be clarified a bit more too. There are gray sentences for the example English phrases, but they aren't translated into French. I can't see how the sentences in French would be built without making my own guesses.

Thanks guys!

Is "on" used throughout this text instead of "nous" since this is considered casual writing? 

Why are the plural "tous" and plural agreement "habillés" used with "on"? I thought it was considered a singular pronoun since it conjugates with il and elle.