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Learn more Languages: FRENCH

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THINGS TO NOTE:

  1. Make sure you know the gender of each noun.
  2. Make sure you know how to conjugate French sentences 

Greetings

Bonjour - Good day, hello
Bonsoir - Good evening
Salut - Hello (informal)

Family - La Famille


le Père - Father
la Mère - Mother
le frère - Brother
la Sœur - Sister

le Oncle - Uncle
la Tante - Aunt
la Nièce - Niece
le Neveu - Nephew

Beau-frère - Brother in law
Beau-sœur - Sister in law
Beau-neveu - Nephew-in-law

Les Conjugaisons Française (French Conjugation): Le Présent (Present Tense) 


We are going to be looking at the conjugation of the verbs Être and Avoir. Learn these by heart because they are going to be essential when we look at past tenses (passé compose).


ÊTRE (to be)

Avoir (to have)

Je

suis

‘ai (J'ai)

Tu

es

as

On

est

a

Il/Elle

est

a

Nous

sommes 

avons

Vous

êtes

avez

Ils/Elles

sont

ont





Les Conjugaisons des Verbes (Verb Conjugation): Le Présent pour les verbes ER, IR et RE (Present Tense for ER, IR and RE ‘regular’ verbs).


ER

IR

RE


E.g. répéter (to repeat)

For the regular verbs, remove the er and add the following highlighted endings for the respective subjects;

E.g. choisir (to choose)

For the regular verbs, remove the ir and add the following highlighted endings for the respective subjects;

E.g.entendre (to hear)

re verbs are quite tricky because most of them are irregular so their endings don't follow a specific pattern.

For the regular verbs, remove the re and add the following highlighted endings for the respective subjects (note that for il, elle and on we do not add anything);

Je

répéte   

choisis

‘entends (J'entends)

Tu

répétes

choisis

entends

On

répéte

choisit

entend

Il/Elle

répéte

choisit

entend

Nous

répétons

choisissons

entendons

Vous

répétez

choisissez

entendez

Ils/Elles

répétent

choisissent

entendent







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