French The Pronoun “En”
The adverbial pronoun en can replace a quantity, a place, or the object of the preposition de. This little word has many possible translations: any, one, some, about it / them, of it / them.…
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The French Pronoun Y
Y replaces or refers back to an adverb phrase of place or of location. In its simplest form, it means just there (in the meaning…
French Relative Pronouns Qui vs Que
In French, direct object pronouns are used for verbs which aren’t followed by prepositions: Me (me), te (you), nous (us), vous (you), le (him or it), la…
French Agreement with Direct Object Pronouns
In the previous module, you learned about replacing direct objects with direct object pronouns in sentences. An important component to that is understanding the new…
French Direct Object Pronouns
The concept of direct object pronouns in French or French direct object pronouns is the same as it is in English. A direct object pronoun…
French The Imperative
The French imperative (l’impératif) is a tense or mood that is used for giving commands, orders and making requests. Examples of the imperative are Mange!…
French The Passive Voice
Le passif, or la voix passive (the passive voice), allows us to avoid mentioning the subject of a sentence and instead place the emphasis on the person or…
French Superlative
Le superlatif expresses the highest degree of a quality. We construct the superlative by using le/la/les plus + adjective or le/la/les moins + adjective. The adjective’s ending agrees with the noun it…
French The Comparative
French and English enjoy common ways of expressing degrees of comparison namely, equality or inequality. Inequality can reflect less than, while superiority can reflect more than. However,…
French Relative Pronouns Qui vs Que
A relative pronoun is a word that is used to link the second half a sentence to a previously mentioned person or thing. The man who works…