Latest French Vocabulary Lessons
Common French Phrases
When traveling to a French-speaking country, it is important to be polite by learning some basic French phrases to greet people. Greetings are more important in France than in the United States, as politeness is highly valued.
French Vocabulary: Numbers
French numbers follow a similar pattern to English, with some quirks. Seventy, eighty, and ninety are a little different, as are a billion versus trillion.
French Vocabulary: 36 French Colors
Learning French colors is not difficult as many of the French words for colors are similar to English words. Colors in French are adjectives that must agree with the gender and number of the noun they are modifying. Colors can also be modified as light or dark and colors that are halfway between two major colors are described the same way in French.
French Vocabulary: French Food Word List
When you’re learning French food vocabulary, there are a few grammar rules to pick up at the same time. When referring to food, use the partitive article, and specific food items should use le/la/les. Here’s a comprehensive list of the most common French food words.
Latest French Grammar Lessons
French Present Participles
French present participles are verb forms showing present circumstances or events that are in the midst of happening, as well as modifying nouns as another type of adjective. They are simple to form, with relatively few exceptions and nuances to remember, but they will expand your grammatical repertoire significantly.
How to Form French Comparisons and Superlatives
Comparative and superlatives in French are generally simpler than in English, though there are a few irregular forms to use and an unusual structure in certain cases. However, if you remember the limited irregular forms and to use the appropriate gender and singular/plural endings, you will have mastered most of this grammar structure.
French Pronouns
Pronouns replace nouns in sentences, and they are an easy way to avoid redundancy and construct more advanced sentences in French. They take different forms depending on what function in the sentence they are taking and which pronoun they are replacing. There are often distinct masculine/feminine and singular/plural forms.
French Prepositions
Prepositions aren’t the most exciting topic in French, but they’re essential for understanding how words relate to each other. Quite a few prepositions and verb and preposition combinations work differently in French than in English, so it’s important to gain an understanding of when and why those differences arise, and how to decide which is the correct preposition to use when you are speaking or writing in French.
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