French language Q&A Forum

Can someone explain why Passé Composé is used in the sentence  "Tu as toujours été jalouse" rather than Imparfait.  Merci beaucoup!

Why would saying "Je suis faim" be incorrect, but "J'ai faim" is correct? aren't these both correct to say "I am hungry"?

The English text 'she lay daydreaming for hours' is translated 'elle restait allongée à rêvasser pendant des heures'.

Does this use of an 'à + infinitive' construction imply some element of purpose (she lay down to daydream) or can it really be used simply to imply simultaneous activity? For example, could you say 'je fait le repassage à écouter la radio...'?

Bonjour!

I think that the bolds to the above paragraphe on conjugation is a bit tricky. I am corying it below

je me / m' 

tu te / t'

il, elle, on se / s'                          + verb conjugated in the right form

nous nous

vous vous

ils, elles se / s

"Je, il, elle, on" must not be in bold. Because they are bold I thought that I could use them in the reflexive form.

Merci

hello, i am trying to understand this lesson but how the topic is represented is very confusing and tedious to me. is there a way to edit the lesson and put it in a table with a column of all the de.. a and du..au and their explanations. i am so discouraged :(

The question read, How do you say, “We don’t know you at all.” Before I clicked on the drop-down arrow, I was expecting to see: Nous ne vous connaissons pas du tout. I was surprised to see that the choices only included the familiar form: Nous ne te connaissons pas du tout. Wouldn’t the fact that the familiar form was used imply that we do know you?  Is it that I was applying a literal meaning to a figurative question?

According to the lesson Vrai before noun means quite a.... where as Vrai after noun means true. So why are we using vraie here before cuisine when we want to say a true kitchen?

which I thought sounded as if it were missing its “v” sound. I’m not the most experienced at “hearing French”, but when playing the word “recevra” via a couple if other translator apps I could hear the “v” in those.