French language Q&A Forum

I haven't had an answer to my query re Chris' explanation, I last wrote ' The English version of this sentence is 'By the time he packed' so the answer should be 'ait fait' or the english should be 'by the time he packs' in which case the french should be  ' she will already be gone' ' I now have a further query about 'By the time you were ready, the bus had already gone'. Surely 'By the time you were ready' is in the past? Is this an example of the difficulty of translating English into French? Do we not have an equivalent tense?

I think it would be helpful to see more test questions using lorsque, après que and une fois que rather than just 'quand' in the Futur Antérieur.

I came across this sentence in a recent test.  I understand that 'qui'  replaces the subject (grand-père ).  What is the function of 'lui' ?

What is the meaning and use of 'que'?

Hi just for further clarification, is it when the 'people' are anonymous and a group e.g les peuples, les gens, les acteurs etc etc can you use'en' to address them? And is it then only when people are named like Marie, ma mère etc etc that you have to use de + stress pronouns?

I had the same problem that Kathleen had even after I listened to it a number of times.  Of course, once I saw the correct version, it was wonderfully clear!

Test question:

How would you say «This computer works the best»? Cet ordinateur marche ________.

The answer is given as mieux.

But the lesson says:

Use meilleure when qualifying something as good/better/the best at what it does, i.e. efficient/practical, or good/better/the best in taste (food):

Quel est le meilleur aspirateur?Which is the best vacuum cleaner?

Why is it right for a vacuum, but wrong for a computer?

Salut! Pouvez-vous m'expliquer la phrase suivante?