"Your stuff is never tidy."

Translation: Tes affaires ne sont jamais bien rangées.

[Daniel589120]

Are there rules when to use "bien" in this sort of construction?

[GraemeSarg]

Not really. It's more down to the speaker's personality.

This sentence is accepted with or without "bien".

[Sitesurf]

"Bien" is one syllable and this is why it usually does not end a sentence.

[MandyB11]

It accepts it without the bien - June '20

[DaveGarrar]

still not accepting it without bien!

[Qiset1]

Would "ranges" work here too?

[GraemeSarg]

"rangés" would not work because "tes/vos affaires" are feminine.

[patrickfit10]

What about 'truc' for 'affaires'?

[DaveGarrar]

Why not: Vos affaires ne sont jamais rangées because ranger means to put in order or to tidy without the 'bien'

[Scorpion.Heath]

what the difference "bien" made literally, with and without it?

[Ivnkrekity]

with truc without bien - it worked 12.11.2021.

[GPDePolnay]

I put bien rangees as an answer to a similar exercise and was marked wrong and here it's OK!

[GraemeSarg]

Did the similar exercise use a feminine "stuff" ("tes affaires" or "tes choses") or a masculine "stuff" ("tes trucs")?

[GPDePolnay]

Absolutely the same - tes affaires!