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Apprendre la Langue Française (101e partie): reconnaître les phrases
Source: Berlitz French Grammar Handbook A sentence is a spoken or written utterance that has a subject and a predicate. When talking we often say things that are not sentences, but in writing we...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (102e partie): le verbe–falloir (usage et...
Source: french.about.com Falloir is an irregular impersonal French verb that is better known in its conjugated form: il faut. Falloir means “to be necessary” or “to need.” It is impersonal, meaning...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (103e partie): la conjonction–que
Source: french.about.com The French word que, which contracts to qu’ in front of a vowel or mute h, has numerous uses and meanings. This summary includes links to detailed information on each use of...
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10 Things I’m Loving Now – chocolates in my bag
Two boys used to go to school together. One of them had a bad habit of stealing the chocolates from his friend’s bag. One day he felt guilty about what he was doing… So he wrote a letter as he didn’t...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (Part 85): pronom objet neutre – le facultatif
Source: french.about.com The French pronoun le acts as a neuter object pronoun in certain constructions. Its usage is optional, formal, and most common in written French. There are four main...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (Part 86): les adverbes de quantité
Source: french.about.com French adverbs of quantity explain how many or how much. assez (de) quite, fairly, enough autant (de) as much, as many beaucoup (de) a lot, many bien de* quite a few combien...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (Part 87): les temps composés
Source: french.about.com French verb conjugations can be divided into two categories: simple tenses and compound tenses. Simple tenses have only one part (je vais) whereas compound tenses have two (je...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (Part 88): ordres des mots
Source: french.about.com The order of words in a French sentence can be very confusing, due to dual-verb constructions, object and adverbial pronouns, and negative structures. French has two kinds of...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (Part 89): les pronoms objets
Source: french.about.com Object pronouns are those tricky little words in sentences that replace nouns affected by verbs. There are two types: 1) Direct object pronouns (pronoms objets directs) replace...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (Part 90): la ville (les vocabulaires)
une boulangerie – a bakery une boucherie – a butchery une blanchisserie – a laundry (store) un salon de coiffure – a hairdressing salon un hôtel – a hotel un restaurant, un resto – a restaurant, a...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (Part 91): la voix et les verbes pronominal
Source: french.about.com Pronominal verbs are verbs that need a reflexive pronoun in addition to a subject pronoun, because the subject(s) performing the action of the verb are the same as the...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (Part 92): le ordre mot avec les verbes pronominal
Source: french.about.com Where to put the reflexive pronoun with negation and questions Placement of the reflexive pronoun is exactly the same as for object pronouns and adverbial pronouns: the pronoun...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (Part 93): les verbes pronominal en les...
Source: french.about.com How to use a pronominal verb in the infinitive or present participle When you use pronominal verbs in the infinitive or present participle, there are two things to keep in...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (Part 94): les verbes pronominal en les temps...
Source: french.about.com How to use pronominal verbs in the passé composé and other compound tenses In compound tenses like the passé composé, all pronominal verbs are être verbs, which means two...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (Part 95): les verbes à sens réciproque et les...
Source: french.about.com French has three kinds of pronominal verbs. The most common are reflexive verbs, but there are also two lesser-known types: reciprocal verbs and idiomatic pronominal verbs....
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Apprendre la Langue Française (96e partie): communication et savoir-faire,...
I have shared quite a lot of notes about French here at my apprendre la langue francaise series. We learned about the grammar, the phonetics, the verb conjugations, some vocabularies, several...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (97e partie): les pronoms réfléchis
Source: french.about.com Reflexive pronouns are a special kind of French pronoun which can only be used with pronominal verbs. These verbs need a reflexive pronoun in addition to a subject pronoun,...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (98e partie): l’imperatif
Source: french.about.com The imperative, called l’impératif in French, is a verb mood which is used to give an order express a desire make a request offer advice recommend something Unlike all other...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (99e partie): les nombres ordinaux et les...
Source: french.about.com Ordinal numbers are used to express rank or position – in other words, ordinal numbers are used for ordering, as opposed to cardinal numbers which are used for counting. French...
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Apprendre la Langue Française (100e partie): le verbe–devoir (usage et...
Source: french.about.com Devoir is one of the most common French verbs. It is irregular in conjugation and has a number of different meanings related to concepts like obligation and probability. 1....
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