Quelque chose de

Dans la leçcon où on a visité la boutique de souvenirs (5.2?), on discute "quelque chose de". Comme chose est un mot féminin, pour quoi on dit "quelque chose de léger" et pas "quelque chose de légère"? Merci!

Salut Guillaume_en_Oregon, "Quelque chose" means "something" and it has no gender. In the sentence "quelque chose de léger" ("something light") you can see that the preposition "de" is used to describe what we are looking for. Since we don't know what it is yet, it has no gender yet. When there's no gender, masculine is the default gender. I hope this helps clarify. Bon chance! Marie-Claire

Merci pour ton aide Prof. How cam I say for a female ( you are a good teacher. ) à bientôt Professeur d'anglais en Egypte.

I answered "Parlez vous Anglais?" to the question "Do you speak English?" Is this as acceptable as, "Est ce que vous parlez Anglais?" which was the suggested answer?

@john o66 ... Oui, chaque expression est acceptable.

Bonjour à tous! Sami, 'prof' works just fine for male and female. Because it is a contraction it loses the ending that distinguishes it as either gender, so it works for both. John, both expressions are fine. There are many different ways to say things in French and just because there is only one answer given in the test does not mean that it is the only option. Obviously you are getting a good feeling for the language if you can rephrase questions and sentences while maintaining the same meaning. I hope this helps! - Marie-Claire