French The Near Future
Use the near future and the simple future tenses to talk about what will happen in the future. The futur proche (near future) tense describes what is…
Tag: French Grammar
French The Verb “to go”
The French verb aller means to go and is one of the most common verbs in the French language. The conjugation of aller in the…
French The Expression “there is” “there are”
The French expression il y a, which can mean there is in French or there are in French, is one of the most important expressions in…
French Telling Time
Telling time in French is just a matter of knowing the French numbers and a few formulas and rules. It’s different than we use in English but…
French Dates
Saying the date in French can be confusing for beginners. The French use a different format where the order of the day and month are…
French Numbers
Learning the numbers to 100 in French can be done systematically. It is very important to master the numbers 1-20 because you will see these…
French Weather Expressions
In French, the word for weather is “le temps”. To talk about the weather, say, “Il fait” plus the specific weather vocabulary word. For example,…
French The Verb “to make” “to do”
The French verb faire means to do or to make, although it is also used in many idiomatic expressions with various different meanings. Faire is an irregular verb, and it…
French -RE verbs (present tense)
The verb form that ends in -RE is called the infinitive (in English, the infinitive is the verb preceded by the word “to”), and -RE…
French Possession
In French whatever possession adjective is used is determined by the gender of the possessed noun. A possessive adjective in French explains the ownership attribute of…