French language Q&A Forum

not luxemburg, luxembourg. the country name is incorrect. please change as it is disrespectful

Hi everyone :)

Could you please explain to me why we use "avoir à" instead of "avoir besoin de"?
Also, at what moment/time we use "avoir à"?

Thank you in advance for your time and respond.

I am always confused, is it the same word or is there a difference in spelling?

Why do we say j'en ai .... When we also have "de cette période".  Why use the pronoun en when the thing we are replacing is still there.  Eg j'ai plus qu'assez de cette période. In english it sounds like , I have had more than enough of it, this period of..... Is that correct ?

I tried the exercise several times, but the score remains 0/60 even if I got 90% right. Is there some problem here?

He loves singing. In American English this sentence could mean either he loves to sing or he loves listening to singing. How is this distinguished in French?

Wouldn't it be correct to translate There is a door as either  Voilà une porte   or Il y a une porte ?

Rather than using "je dois aussi acheter...," I used "il faut que j'aussi achète...." It marked me incorrect and didn't have my translation as an option. Is mine actually wrong?

Hi!

In the notes to this section it says:
Je suis arrivé dix minutes en retard.

But in the video the guy says at 1:06 :
L'avion est arrivé en retard d'une heure.

You even give follow-up examples where the time is at the end of a sentence.
So.....with arriver/venir/commencer/finir (without avec) - it doesn't matter if I put the [time] before or after en retard?

Because if that is the case, then an addition in the "attention section" would be nice:
or
[5 minutes] en retard / [5 minutes] en avance

or

en retard or [5 minutes] en avance / [5 minutes] 


Okay, and now I got myself even more confused....😂

My french prof and textbook use "e" after (only) 1, 2, and 3 but writing "le 2e avril" or something like that was marked wrong by the kwizbot. Is 1e, 2e, 3e a regional or vernacular construction?