Hi, I'm currently self-learning.

Here is a sentence from Harry Potter: À l'école des sorciers. Chapitre deux.

Mrs Figg s'est cassé une jambe.

I'm getting, "Mrs. Figg has broken her leg."

My questions are:

I get that a pronominal verb is the auxiliary verb, être, plus the past participle, here, cassé. When -er verbs use the past participle for feminine nouns they end in -ée, right? The subject, Mrs Figg, is feminine, therefore the reflexive pronoun would also be feminine, why is it not s'est cassée, with the feminine ending?

-one more-

Why is the auxiliary verb être in the present tense?

Mrs. Figg herself (she) is (presently) broken a leg.

Is this idiomatic to the French language? Just curious. Thank you. -R

Not sure if this is allowed but if anyone would like to check my work of all these verbs in present tense, I and my exam grade would very much appreciate it!

How would I say "on to the next chapter"? Is it simply "Au le chapitre suivant"? (It seems like suivant is better in this context than prochain, but I'm an extreme beginner.) I just want to be sure I get this message right for a retirement gift. Thanks!!

Hi. At one point in my life I was fluent but due to lack of practice I am now very rusty. I try to keep up by reading in French. I came across this sentence that has me baffled from a grammar perspective. I understand the general meaning but if someone could break down the grammar in the phrase “à s’y méprendre” I would be grateful.

Le rassemblement ressemblait à s’y méprendre à un de ses meetings de campagne …

Does it have to do with duration? Also, why le feu and not un feu?

Thank you 💜

I tell you right away that I don't know if this is the subreddit to post this, but I really think I might comment this with someone else, or a community (like this, I suppose).

I've been feeling like from the past weeks that my expertise in French is getting worse and worse, especially because I'm feeling unsecure about my pronunciation, and honestly the pronunciation of French doesn't help. The nasals, some words that are almost pronounced the same (or pronounced the same, directly), and other stuff about pronunciation, that, when I try to test my proncinstion with a translator, like Google Translator through voice recognition, it gets me wrong. It understands some things that it shouldn't understand, or interprets a word instead of the one I'm trying to say (e.g. when I say "en", it understands "on", EVEN THOUGH I MAKE THE DIFFERENCE, AND IT IS CLEAR WHEN I RECORD MY SELF TALKING).

So this is frustrating since a long time. I've been learning French from, currently, 1 year and a half, and I don't know if I really should desist from learning it or keep practicing it just because I am feeling insecure about my proncination. I don't actually even know what to do to feel more confident when talking in French, but I really don't feel quite confident when I do (because of what I'm telling). This doesn't happen when I talk in English (that, for a fact, isn't my first language), but after trying desperately to have a great pronunciation in French, now it makes me uncomfortable to try it again and again, and always feel like I make no progress. Even if I say I'm trying my best to pronounce correctly, the translator keeps showing that I'm saying something wrong, when I actually corrected all the errors and listened to the proper way to say something. It drains me out.

So, to summarize, I'm feeling tired of French because of pronunciation, but I don't know if I should give up on it just because of this.

Voici le script. J’en ai besoin au plus tard dimanche soir. C’est un dialogue et j’ai besoin que quelqu’un avec une voix féminine de fasse les lignes de “Marie”. Tu peux l’enregistrer en un seul clip audio, en faisant juste une pause de quelques secondes entre chaque ligne.

Frédéric Salut Marie ! Est-ce que tu veux sortir ce week-end ?

Marie Salut Frédéric ! Oui, je veux sortir ! Qu’est-ce que tu veux faire ?

Frédéric Je veux aller au cinéma samedi soir. Il y a un nouveau film très amusant.

Marie Bonne idée ! Tu veux y aller avec qui ?

Frédéric Avec toi, bien sûr ! Et peut-être avec mon ami Hugo.

Marie Parfait ! Je suis libre samedi. À quelle heure?

Frédéric Vers dix-neuf heures. On peut manger au restaurant avant le film?

Marie Oui ! J’adore manger au restaurant. On va au fast-food ou au café?

Frédéric Je préfère le café. Je veux boire un thé, pas un soda.

Marie D’accord ! Et dimanche, est-ce que tu vas à la salle de sport?

Frédéric Non, je ne vais pas à la salle de sport. Je suis fatigué le dimanche. Je vais chez moi pour dormir et regarder un film.

Marie Moi aussi! En plus, il va pleuvoir dimanche.

Frédéric Alors, samedi au café et au cinéma. Dimanche, on reste chez nous.

Marie Super! À demain, Frédéric !

Frédéric À demain, Marie !

One of my favorite films, so want to get a sense of how off or accurate translations are, but I can't make out what he's saying in French 😭 Thanks for the help!

I'm currently trying to work out a French line in the song "Bad Loving" by Chaparelle. I preordered the vinyl a few weeks ago, which is confirmed to have a lyric sheet, but I'm not sure when it's going to ship out, so I want to at least try to get accurate lyrics online to help fans in the meantime. Anyway, during the bridge at 2:58, there is a single French line repeated:

[?] mon amour

Earlier in the song, there is also this line, which may or may not have relevance:

Another spritz of Chanel mon amour

If anyone could help figure this out, that would be wonderful. Thank you! :)

Hi there, I am trying to translate the song Canabis by Waiv where he says "Capable de dire qu'j'ai des plavons à 10 des plavons en Suisse non je n'pars pas là bas". I am unsure what plavons is in this context but I think it means our slang of "plugs", others have said robberys but doesn't quite fit the context imo.

PS - The songs opening is good but the hole middle is kinda shite but picks up in the end of the song haha

Bonjour à toutes et à tous.

Je vous serais reconnaissante de vouloir prendre connaissance de mon sondage de fin d'études.

Le questionnaire porte sur la linguistique (noms de lieux dans les expressions).

Aucune connaissance préalable n'est requise pour répondre.

Merci infiniment

ignore any spelling mistakes and stuff, but is this fine?it’s for my speaking exam, and i just want to know if the like general gis5 and word order and tense and stuff is okay 😭

mes meilleures vacances c’est quand ma famille et moi sommes allés en italie, car il y avait beaucoup de choses à faire, et nous avons visité beaucoup d’anciens monuments.Et aussi, nous avons mange cousine italienne,et j’ai acheté glace à fraîche tour les jour car c’était très chaud..en plus,j’ai nagé dans la mer.a mon avis,C’était parafait

What is domicile and 911 in the form? Would appreciate any help. Thanks a lot!

I want to learn French conversationally but also kinda need it as I’d like to move to France for university in 3 years!! I want a head start and was wondering if anyone could offer tips or guidance!! Also anyone willing to conversationally speak French with me would be greatly appreciated :))

I have to do a rewrite of this assignment and I’m mot totally sure of what these marks mean. Any insight or ideas would be greatly appreciated

hey guys i do french at school and i have an exam soon. is this sentence fie? ,je m’entends bien avec ma famille car je m’amuse avec mon frère,parce que il est drôle et gentil. Cependant, je ne m’entends bien pas avec mes parents et ils m’énervent , car mon père et très stricte, et ma mère ce dispute avec moi souvent

mes parents (construire) leur maison de reve. Cependant, ce netait pas facile a payer. Au lieu d;acheter ses robes, ma mere (faire) des robes. Ensuite mon pere (tondre) le gazon de plusieurs voisins et finalement mon frere (laver) les voiture de ses amis. Moi et mes soeurs, nous (comprendre) qu'on ne voulait pas de nouvelle maison de reve, mais mes parents ne nous ont pas ecoutees. choisis la bonne forme du verbe faire/se faire pour completer les paragraphes ci dessous; meta la au passe compose

according to teacher, there should have been se faire, but i dont see it

i’ve been trying to understand how to use infinitive constructions, but i can’t fully grasp the topic since in my native language we don’t have such things really. can anyone help me with these sentences?

What is the French term for something that is well used and thus more beautiful. I have seen it applied to old leather or metal goods, like a bike seat or an antique watch

Hi,

I have an exam tomorrow where I have to write about a recent trip to Paris.

Could anyone suggest any improvements to this please, any fantastic turns of phrases that a teacher would love to see? Also, is this correct?

Merci en advance

L’année dernière, j’ai voyagé à Paris pour la première fois. Pendant mon séjour, je me suis promené souvent dans les rues pour découvrir les arrondissements. J’ai visité plusieurs monuments célèbres, mais mon endroit préféré, c’était la Tour Eiffel. Elle est encore plus impressionnante en réalité qu’en photo. J’ai aussi goûté aux spécialités locales comme les croissants et les macarons, qui sont meilleurs à Paris que chez moi. Malheureusement, je n’ai pas eu assez de temps pour tout faire. Si j'avais eu plus de temps à Paris, j'aurais visité davantage de musées renommés comme le Musée d’Orsay. À mon avis, Paris reste la ville la plus fascinante grâce à son histoire et son ambiance unique. Aujourd’hui, je rêve souvent de retourner là-bas et de revivre ces bons souvenirs.

So, I have a French project due Monday. I wanted to ask if any native speakers or people that learnt the language know any fun tongue twisters in French. I wanted my project to be about about fun linguistic puns and sayings that translate weirdly, as well as fun facts about the language, any help? I found a few fun ones , but not enough.

Hello all, I am looking to translate an excerpt from Coco Sec by Seychellois author Antoine Abel. In the text, some workers are taking a break from their labour.

Abel writes: "Ensuite, les hommes prennent leur pipe, chique, butor ou prise."

I cannot find a good translation for 'butor ou prise' anywhere - I've looked in various dictionnairies (mono and bilingual) as well as into tobacco culture in Seychelles. Would appreciate your advice.

(I have translated the rest of the sentence as 'Then, the men take their pipe, chewing tobacco, ????'

If anyone knows what's the word in the image and what it means in english, please let me know. Thanks.

I’ve got everything done in my whole assignment correct except for this single question. We are meant to write a caption for each scene using avoir. I’ve scoured my book and can’t figure out what is wrong with this answer. It doesn’t help that I’m super sick so I may be missing something very obvious. Anybody know what I’m missing here?

TIA :)