{"id":31360,"date":"2019-05-28T05:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T03:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=31360"},"modified":"2019-05-25T21:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T19:16:05","slug":"french-colors-and-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-colors-and-commercials\/","title":{"rendered":"French Colors and Commercials"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve talked about colors<\/a> in the past. And we’ve looked at a\u00a0pub<\/strong> (French TV commercial) for Haribo<\/a> as well. But these two that I came across recently do such a good job of combining the two, that I just had to share them. They also provide a nice illustration of the useful French verb\u00a0pr\u00e9f\u00e9rer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Je pr\u00e9f\u00e8re …<\/strong> \/ I prefer …<\/em><\/p>\n

Just like the English\u00a0to prefer<\/em>,\u00a0pr\u00e9f\u00e9rer<\/strong> means ‘to like one thing more than another’. It’s not that you don’t like the first thing, you just like something else more. As in:\u00a0J’aime les westerns, mais je pr\u00e9f\u00e8re les films d’horreur.<\/strong> (I like westerns, but I prefer horror movies.)<\/em> Or:\u00a0Monique aime la campagne, mais elle pr\u00e9f\u00e8re la plage.<\/strong> (Monique likes the country, but she prefers the beach.)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The conjugation<\/a> is pretty straightforward, except for a few present tense forms (like the two seen in these examples) that flip the second\u00a0accent aigu<\/strong> for an\u00a0accent grave<\/strong>. (Click here<\/a> for a nice overview of the different accents in French.)<\/p>\n