Category: Grammar_A1

In English we say “I am hungry” or “I am 20 years old”. French does not use être-to be here. It uses avoir (to have): J’ai faim literally means “I have hunger”or J’ai vingt ans to say I am 20...

When you talk about food and drinks in French, you often need to say “some”: some bread, some water, some fruit. In English we can drop “some” (I eat bread), but in French the article is never dropped. French uses...

Demonstrative adjectives in French are used to point to or specify something or someone. They correspond to “this,” “that,” “these,” or “those” in English. The demonstrative adjectives agree in gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural) with the...

Prepositions are words that establish a relationship between nouns or pronouns and other elements in a sentence. They often indicate location, direction, time, or manner. French prepositions serve similar functions. Here are a few common French prepositions: Preposition: à (to,...

Pronominal verbs, also known as Reflexive Verbs, are verbs that include a reflexive pronoun that reflects the action back onto the subject. In languages like Spanish, French, Italian, and others, these verbs typically use reflexive pronouns to indicate that the...

Possessive adjectives are words that describe who or what owns or possesses something. In English, a possessive adjective is one of the words my, your, his, her, its, our or their used with a noun to show that one person...

In French, verbs that end in “-re” are part of the third group of verbs. The conjugation of regular “-re” verbs follows a particular pattern. Here’s a general overview of how these verbs are conjugated in the present tenses. 1....