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AngelaC1Kwiziq community member

I would have have thought you would have to say avec qu'il parle In the quiz the question was "la fille avec ... il parle " I chose laquelle but the answer qui was also expected. I did not choose that because the qui should have been qu'

Asked 8 years ago

JoakimC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Use of "y"In one lesson (about the use of non plus) there was an example "Il ne joue pas souvent au foot, et toi ? -Je n'y joue pas souvent non plus." Please add to the lesson a link to the lesson that explains this use of "y" (had expected "en") - I'm familiar with y being used to refer to a previously mentioned location but this was something else.

Asked 8 years ago

JoakimC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Manque de ?I keep getting this one wrong despite having read the lesson multiple times. What property of X determines whether it's "manque X" or "manque de X"? It says manque de in the lesson, but surely l'école is "something" but does not need "de"?

Asked 8 years ago

JoakimC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Partitive articleIn this lesson I'd like to see something about why no article is needed on the thing that is missing. E.g why is "Je manque du argent pour payers mes factures" wrong?

Asked 8 years ago

YellamarajuC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Il est arrivé le dernier jour de la semaine ___. ( dernière )'dernier'=last refers to the word le jour. and the later is masculine. Why is it to be made feminine? as was suggested in the test answer. Request clarification.

Asked 8 years ago

JoakimC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

When is "de" needed?Look at these sentences: Le roi a la pouvoir. Pour faire de la fusion nucléaire une source d'énergie, il faut que... How come one needs "de" in front of "la", but the other doesn't? Is there some handy rule I can apply?

Asked 8 years ago

MARIANA0Kwiziq community member

I have issues with the tenses and how to conjugate

Asked 8 years ago

CarolB2Kwiziq community member

"dans laquelle" vs. "ou"Would it also be correct to say "L'époque dans laquelle il vivait..."?

Asked 8 years ago

Bernadette B2Kwiziq community member

When do you use etre a instead of la mien, la tien etc?

Asked 8 years ago

Jocelyn C1Kwiziq community member

FALLOIR passé composé ?

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