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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.
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.
Learning how to ask questions in French is a vital grammar and vocabulary skill to acquire, and there are lots of ways to form questions. In this lesson we provide a thorough review of the major parts of speech and vocabulary to learn to ask many kinds of questions, as well as covering the variety of ways one can correctly form questions in French.
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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.
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.
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.
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