"After she lost weight, she felt better."
Translation:Après qu'elle a maigri, elle se sentait mieux.
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après que + conjugated verb
→ Après qu'elle a maigri, elle se sentait mieux.
après + noun
après + infinitive verb
→ Après sa perte de poids, elle se sentait mieux.
→ Après avoir maigri, elle se sentait mieux.
I'm guessing it's the slight difference between "After she lost weight ..." and "After losing weight ...". Après avoir maigri wasn't accepted either (unless I made another mistake that I didn't see).
Why is "Après qu'elle a perdu du poids, elle s'est sentie mieux." wrong? Is it the "qu"? All the other translators I tried accepted this sentence.
And thank you Jojo for your explanation!
The second half makes more sense as a continuing state, not a one-off event, so it should be in the imparfait. It's possible that she felt better for a second and felt bad again a moment later, but that would be an unusual reading of sentence without more context.
It would still be "perdu" if "poids" was feminine. There's no gender agreement with nouns that follow the verb.
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...) if it was before "a". Example :" la masse que tu as perdue". However, this phrasing is weird in spoken language ( although right from physics science point of view)...
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Nota Bene : la moitié de mon commentaire initial a été perdue sans que je ne sache pourquoi. Du coup, il semblait inexact!
It's also "elle a perdu" without the 'e'. It's only être verbs and reflexive verbs that have gender agreement with their subject.