French Grammar: Tips and Notes
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Clothing (Idiomatic Plurals, Diacritics, Nasal Vowels)
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Idiomatic Plurals English has a number of idiomatic nouns that appear the same whether singular or plural and care must be taken when tran...
Plurals 2 (Nouns & Adjectives, Articles, Conjugations, Punctuation)
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Nouns and Adjectives Most plural forms of nouns and adjectives can be formed by appending an -s to the singular, but remember that this -s...
Adjectives 1 (Agreement, Placement, Figurative, Euphony)
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Agreement Unlike English adjectives, French adjectives must agree in number and gender with the nouns that they modify. A black dog is un ...
Weather 1 (Impersonal Expressions, Il fait, Il y a)
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Impersonal Expressions to Describe the Weather In French, it is common to use verbs like faire ("to do") idiomatically for gener...
Animals 1 (Noun Genders, Feminine Animals)
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Noun Genders As you learned in "Basics 1", French has two grammatical genders: masculine and feminine. All nouns have a gender, ...
Food 1 (Partitive Article, Count Noun or Mass Noun, Omitted Articles, De + Definite Art.)
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The Partitive Article The partitive article is used for unspecified amounts of uncountable nouns. In English, it can translate to "so...
Basics 3 (Être & Avoir, Continuous Tenses)
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Être and Avoir Être and avoir (“to be” and “to have”) are the most common verbs in French. Like many common verbs, they have irregular con...
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