"d'après" and "selon" are synonymous.

Still not Accepted as of 17.09.2018

• Mauvais = Bad
• Mal = Badly

mauvais is an adjective and mal is used as an adverb

No, only in front of a word starting with a vowel, like "avons", then the liaison is Z: NOU_Z_AVON

Selina, as you can see, CheshireCat75 feels very strongly about this. According to him (repeated a dozen or more times on this page), "according to us" is incorrect English. That may be true where he lives (Cheshire, maybe?), but it is absolutely not true in other parts of the English-speaking world. In particular, it is a common and generally-accepted idiom in the United States.

As CC75 notes, the definition of "according to X" does not necessarily imply the speaker's agreement with a statement, merely that X claims that statement to be true. (E.g., "According to White House sources, the president is about to impose new steel tariffs" does not say that new tariffs are coming, just that some people in the White House are saying that they are coming. Maybe they're right, and maybe they're wrong.) That makes "according to X" almost completely interchangeable with "in X's opinion".

Of course, if X is "me" or "us", then agreement is highly likely, but there are exceptions. Here are two examples of such disagreement:

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According to me, the answer had to be 7. But it turned out to be 5. I guess I was wrong.

World Wide Widgets supports a tax cut for widget manufacturers. According to us (meaning the company, but not necessarily the spokesman who knows it to be a lie), this will spur the economy and benefit everybody.

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Bottom line: The correct answer to your question, at least according to me, is "Nothing. Report it. I did." Although to be fair to CC75, it IS a good idea to peruse the rest of a discussion before posting a question that has already been asked and answered, even if you disagree with the answers.

"it is" changes to "c'est" when "it is" is followed by a modified noun (article + noun at minimum + optional adjective)

• it is bad = il est mauvais
• it is a bad thing = c'est une mauvaise chose

No, because the point of this is learning to say "According to".

In French "mauvais" doesn't really have the same connotation when used for a person and for an object. When applied to an object the word definitely only carries the meaning of the object being "not good", but not in the sense of the Good and the Bad (with capitals). I would rather use "démoniaque".

I said "according to us, he is evil," my duolingo did not accept it ??

Yes, in real life, the meaning is exactly the same.

Please read the discussion above for a full explanation. Here's a summary:

Once upon a time, "according to us" was accepted

At least one person argued (repeatedly and IMO incorrectly) that this was unacceptable English.

"In our opinion" stopped being accepted.

A lot of people have since complained. Please join the club by REPORTING this glitch. Hopefully some day the Powers That Be will see the light. (But don't hold your breath. As you can see, the argument has been going on for years.)

No, the sentence could perhaps mean that a thing is bad, like the cookie i'm eating, or the shop across the street, where I purchased it.

"according to" = selon

"us" is the object form of "we", "nous" is both the subject and object form.

First, you can't use "mal" here, since that is the adverb form. You would have to use "mauvais" to say "it is bad."

Second, you can't take the sentence out of context. Although "Selon nous, c'est mauvais" is technically a grammatically correct sentence, the context could be referring to a person's being bad, not something's being bad.

awful = affreux, ie just a bit stronger in intensity than bad/mauvais.

"Sick" = "malade"

"je" is necessarily a subject; after "selon" comes a complement, so no, "selon je" cannot be used. It would be like saying "according to he"...

After a preposition, you need a stressed pronoun:

• à, de, par, avec, sans, devant, derrière, au-dessus de, après, avant.... moi, toi, lui, elle, nous, vous, eux, elles.

Apparently it's wrong English.

(Which I don't personally agree with)

DL seems to prefer in our opinion, but i could find no real reason for your answer to be incorrect unless they were preferring he is bad. Sometimes there may be a typo in your submitted answer you didn't notice. But it should have been accepted

it does not really need any context if you understand that the aim of this sentence is to teach you the word "selon", meaning "according to".

If you don't know the context, translate literally. That's an English phrase that means a similar thing and would be more common in English, but it's not a direct translation (that would be 'nous pensons qu'il est mauvais'). Put yourself in the literal mindset on here and you'll lose fewer hearts and gain less frustration. ;P

No, I think that would be "il est malade" (he is sick, has a malady). Not sure about the final 'e' in "malade", but it looks wrong to me without it. :-/

No, not "sick" as ill or unwell.

Um, no, that doesn't make sense.

Your French sentence explains the underlying meaning of "According to us", but the English phrase is a reasonably common expression which is much more idiomatically translated as "Selon nous". I hope I have answered your question.

No. You can use "mauvais" also for a movie, a meal, a book, someone's mood,...

In French, "selon nous" or "d'après nous" can easily be used about our "understanding" of a situation, not to quote ourselves.

However, in English, "according to us" could more probably be used by some people having some kind of authority. Context would tell.

First, in English, you use "it" (neutral) for objects, and animals and babies when you don't know their sex. In French, we don't have any neutral form, so we use either "il" (masculine noun) or "elle" (feminine noun) in the cases above hinted at. So when learning words in French, you have to learn their gender. There's no way you can avoid it.

Last, the best translation for "ça" would be "that". ("ceci" is "this")

HTH

While I 100% agree with you (see above), you'd do better to read, upvote and downvote the discussion above, rather than asking a question that has already been argued about extensively.

You don't need Sitesurf for this one. Just look at the discussion above. Many of us think that "according to us" should be allowed. Others disagree.