Tag Archives: French grammar
The French RAP of the Participes PASSÉS Posted by Hichem on Jun 23, 2012
A French teacher from Canada has devised a fun and fantastic way to teach French grammar to her young students: A French Rap song that describes the rules of thumb of the “PP“—meaning les Participes Passés (Past Participles)! Pour plus de détails (For more details), go to: www.rapdespp.com ♦ LE RAP DES PARTICIPES PASSÉS (THE RAP…
Moving foward with the future in French Posted by Adir on Jun 15, 2012
There are two kinds of future tense in French: le Futur Simple and le Futur Proche. Today we’re going to start talking about the Futur Simple. It is used when you are talking about plans in the future, but nothing extremely definite, things may change. This would correspond to using “will” to express the future…
How to use the verb “y avoir” (there to be) Posted by Adir on Jun 10, 2012
The verb y avoir means “there to be”, but in French it has only one form in the present: il y a. Let’s check out some examples: Dans mon salon, il y a un canapé en tissu. In my living room, there’s a fabric sofa. Dans ma cousine, il y a une cuisinière à gaz…
Indicative or subjunctive? Posted by Adir on May 25, 2012
Last Friday we took a look at how some irregular verbs are conjugated in the Present Subjunctive in French. It is not always easy to know when to use verbs in the Indicative or Subjunctive mode in French so I gathered some key expressions to help you when to use the indicative or subjunctive in…
Le subjonctif présent – irregular verbs Posted by Adir on May 18, 2012
Salut! Comment ça va? The subjunctive is a pretty hard verb tense for English speakers who are learning French so today we are going to review the regular verb form and also some irregular verbs. On commence? The subjonctif présent is formed with the root of the third person plural of the verb in the…
Les classes grammaticales françaises (French Grammatical Classes) Posted by Hichem on Jun 6, 2011
Don’t be just good, or “average good”, in French grammar; why not become un superman de la grammaire française ! (Picture suggested by a fan of The French Blog) * * * For that, retour aux bases (back to the basics): Starting with identifying les classes grammaticales (Grammatical classes), which are today’s subject: Le…
French Prepositions Posted by Transparent Language on Dec 9, 2009
One of the challenging things about learning a new language is getting the prepositions right because as much as you may want to directly translate them, you will almost always get into trouble doing this. So, today, I’ll give you some examples of preposition use that you just have to know by heart (à connaître…