Negation is not particularly difficult in French, but there are some rules that should be remembered. However, it becomes more complicated with passé composé. Let’s take a look together! The basic rules of negation in French The negation in French in the present tense has the following basic structure: ➠ SUBJECT + NE + VERB […]
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We started to see the closed questions, the ones where you can only answer yes or no questions. If you are going to ask a stranger in the street a question, the language should be different from what you use with your boss – which is also different from what you use with your family
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Are you in doubt about how to use c’est? Have you confused it with il est? The French expressions c’est and il est can be tricky because they are synonymous but not interchangeable. Which one to use depends less on meaning than it does on grammar. C’est : Mainly used: c’est + first name (C’est
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Les heures en français. Can you tell the time in French if someone asks you on the street? Here are some examples when you are asked what time it is? (“Quelle heure est-il ?”). 6h > Il est six heures : It’s 6 am.8h > Il est huit heures : It’s 8 am.15h > Il
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Reflexive pronouns are pronouns used with reflexive verbs. Do you remember? “se laver, se réveiller…” Reflexive verbs describe what a person does for him/herself, meaning that it reflects the action of the verb back on the subject (the subject and the object are the same). The structure is always the same for all reflexive verbs,
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There are four types of partitive articles in French, du, de la , de l’, and des, which are used to specify unknown quantities. And they correspond to ‘some’ or ‘a little’. Choosing which one to use depends on gender, number, and the first letter of the noun that follows. Qu’est-ce que vous voulez manger
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Most French learners find it difficult to decide between imparfait and passé composé when talking about the past tense. Although both are past tenses, they are used in very different contexts and cannot be used interchangeably. Master the difference between these two complicated tenses with the examples and explanations below, then put your knowledge to
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They are few in number compared to the others (first group in -er and third group very irregular). These verbs are, for example, finir (to finish), grandir (to grow/increase), grossir (to grow), agir (to act), choisir (to choose)… verbs we use regularly! Group verbs that end in –ir which form the present participle with –issant.
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Numbers in French are often seen as difficult, this is not totally wrong, but it is not that difficult. The mistake that many students make is to try to learn them all at once, from 0 to 1,000,000. A good way to get disgusted with French! If you learn the numbers in several steps, as
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It’s one of the big challenge for native English speakers, the genders in French! I heard so many times, “why is this one feminine and this other masculine but this rule says this?”. Gender marks in French can have some particular forms that we will see here. Don’t worry, by the end of this article
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