French language Q&A Forum

In all your examples, the two subjects are different. But what happens when they are the same? Can you just use the infintive?

For example

Unless I want to buy something, I only need my house key.

À moins que JE veuille acheter quelque chose, JE n'ai besoin que de ma clé de maison.

À moins de vouloir acheter quelque chose, je n'ai besoin que de ma clé de maison. 

This is in the lesson examples:

Sophie a mal à l'oreille.Sophie's ear aches. 
Sophie has an earache

But when I entered « Aurélie a mal à l’oreille » as the quiz answer it said I was wrong and should have answered « Aurélie a mal aux oreilles ». Which version is actually correct?

I translated "how many times" (I've got lost) as "combien de fois" rather than "le nombre de fois".  This was not listed as an alternative, but according to my Reverso app they are both acceptable in this context.  When would you use one rather than the other?

Until 1974 the English of translation of 'un milliard' would have been one thousand million (otherwise known in English as 'a milliard'), an English billion being one million million. The Americans being more inclined to exaggeration used Billion to mean 1,000 million, this has now been generally accepted throughout the world. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion for more background

Bonjour Madame Cécile,

In the lesson, there are two sentences as-

“Je suis en classe.” And “Je suis dans la classe.” I am unable to understand the difference in both of them as how the first is a general statement and the second is for a specific location . Please expain the reason in a little detail. I will be really grateful.

Merci d’avance.

(Madame, I have gone through the discussions but am still perplexed.)

With these two answers it seems you are teaching that Passé Simple is past tense and present tense. I am confused.

Why should I have chosen, Leila is finishing...?