Tag: French Grammar

There are several hundred regular French verbs that end in -ir. To conjugate regular -ir French verbs, it’s best to run through an example, step by step.…

Forming a question in French requires knowledge of interrogatives (question words). It will also give you some fundamentals for asking questions in French as a…

Possessive adjectives are the words used in place of articles to indicate to whom or to what something belongs. French possessive adjectives are used in similar ways…

One thing English speakers who are learning French struggle with is learning how to conjugate all the different verbs. Most French verbs typically end in…

An adjective is an important element to any language. These words tell the listener or the reader what something looks, feels, smells or sounds like. Adjectives…

The partitive article refers to an unspecified quantity of food, liquid, or some other uncountable noun. English has no equivalent article – the partitive is…

Zero Article for Professions The “zero article” is the classification for phantom articles, when nouns are used with no article at all. A common mistake when learning…

In French, the indefinite articles (articles indéfinis) are un (masculine singular), une (feminine singular) and des (plural for both genders). In English they are the articles a or an. An indefinite article is used to define an…

The French definite articles (articles définis) are le in the masculine singular, la in the feminine singular, l’ for singular nouns that start with a vowel, and les in the plural (both genders). They correspond to…

A negative sentence (une phrase négative) allows us to negate a statement, express disagreement, make contradictions or deny the occurrence of an event or action. The most common…