French language Q&A Forum

Looking at this sentence - 'je sais comment pousser les gens à bout' - I am wondering why the word comment is there? I am used to seeing savoir followed directly by the infinitive.

I am a little confused about the use of la journée and le soir in this text. 'During the day' (Pendant la journée) is feminine - I understand this as she is discussing a length of time rather than a specific point in time. I don't understand why 'in the evening' (le soir) is not 'la soirée' - what distinguishes these two statements to make the switch from feminine to masculine? Is it the preceding "during" and "in"?

Thanks in advance! 

is there a trick to find the gender of nouns without knowing it beforehand ?

Why would we use « leur histoire » for « their stories »? It is confusing because some of your alternative phrases use « leurs histoires »and some use « leur histoire ». Is there a lesson on this?

All through the piece "news" is translated as "infos" except in the last sentence when it is "nouvelles".  Any special reason for this, beyond some idiosyncrasy  of language?

Please post vocabulary for basic maths here. It only says "manger" in the vocab when the topic is basic maths.

Mon text est en anglais.  Je veux le voir en français.  Comme je fais ça?  Merci

Is it ne vend pas

Or

Ne vends pas

The lesson says that apparaitre and naitre and derivatives use etre in the passe compose.  But in the Test, the rabit disapeared from the hat uses avoir.