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Thefirst thing you need to learn to build sentences in French is the word order. Otherwise, even if you learn a lot of vocabulary, it will always be difficult to identify the keywords and the general meaning of what you hear or read.

Make sure to explore FrenchPod101.com, as we have plenty of free resources to help you practice your grammar and learn new words. Our vocabulary lists are also a great way to review words and learn their pronunciation.

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Vronique Mazet has a doctorate in French from the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of two successful grammar books. She currently teaches French at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas.

Tex's French Grammar (la grammaire de l'absurde), a pedagogical reference grammar that combines explanations with surreal dialogues and cartoon images. Originally built for students at the University of Texas at Austin as a user-friendly guide to French grammar, this website may be profitably used by any learner of French, provided he or she possess a sense of humor. Tex's French Grammar is arranged like many other traditional reference grammars with the parts of speech (nouns, verbs, etc.) used to categorize specific grammar items (gender of nouns, irregular verbs). Individual grammar items are carefully explained in English, then exemplified in a dialogue, and finally tested in self-correcting, fill-in-the-blank exercises.

Alongside online thesaurus and directives from the Acadmie franaise, grammar checkers are other useful tools to understand and write in French. Be it to type a quick email or draft a formal letter in French, they help you ensure your grammar and your spelling are correct. They have grown so much in popularity that you are now spoiled for choice, and may even find it difficult to pick one. To help you decide, we have tested six French grammar checkers available for free online.

Right after LanguageTool, Scribens comes in as a close second. In our test, it was able to spot the exact same four errors. The suggested edits were also correct. But you may not get all the possible correct versions and the explanations may not be quite as clear, unless you decide to click on rgle gnrale (general rule) to get a very detailed grammar overview.

Further down the list, Bon Patron can identify when something is wrong and why it is wrong. But it may fall short of giving you the actual correct version in a clear and straightforward manner. Instead, it may tell you possible ways on how you can correct a word yourself. A bit more of a hassle, though this can also be a good opportunity to practice French grammar:

Yes, technically, Google Docs is a free online word processor, and not a grammar and spell checker. However, it does include the feature in French, alongside other useful ones like predictive text. For obvious reasons, the grammar and spell checker on Google Docs is fairly limited. For instance, it may correctly suggest to add a missing French accent on (to), but without explaining why the version without it, a (has), is incorrect:

Also, it is the only software in our list that was able to spot only three mistakes out of five. It failed to recognize that des ami was incorrect, even though the error could be deemed fairly easy to spot.

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Agreements are not very common in English. But they are very common in French grammar. You will have to change some words or parts of words (like the endings of verbs or French adjectives) to match other French words related to them.

Would you like to know how to conjugate a French verb? Here is an article about the French verb tre with audio. I also invite you to browse the French verb category of this blog, where you will find many free French verb lessons.

French adjectives will agree in what we call gender and number with the noun they modify, and this will affect both their writing and their pronunciation. This too will take some training and getting used to :-)

Kwiziq French covers every conceivable grammar topic and rule across the French language! This section contains some of the most popular lessons in our system. You might also like to look at our French verb conjugation tables.

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When compared to other languages, learning French grammar as a native English speaker is relatively simple. The rules are straightforward and make logical sense, but that doesn't mean becoming fluent is easy. Building accurate sentences in French that reflect your intent still requires a lot of practice and application. With that being said, French grammar rules aren't nearly as hard as learning Russian grammar or trying to navigate the Japanese alphabet. To help you get started, we've put together a comprehensive guide to French grammar and how to apply it in everyday conversations.

French grammar has a lot of similarities to English grammar, making it easier for native English speakers to master the basics of the French language quickly. The two languages have the same parts of speech and similar sentence structure, but there are also several differences. Luckily, you won't have to worry about word order as much as German or Mandarin.

Like other languages, French conjugation of verbs is much different than in English and can initially intimidate learners. French is also a gendered language, meaning nouns are masculine or feminine and require corresponding articles. More on that later!

Creating a solid foundation is essential to help you master French grammar rules and put them to use. To help you get started, we've put together a few of the most important building blocks French learners need to know.

French nouns can be concrete, abstract, proper, or common, just like in English. Proper nouns will need to be capitalized (e.g., Paris) and often don't have an article attached to them. However, regardless of the type of noun, each one has a gender: masculine and feminine. This gender assignment impacts the articles (definite and indefinite) and adjectives associated with the noun.

For example, the word for "table" is feminine (la table), while the word for "book" is masculine (le livre). The definite articles "le" and "la" correspond to masculine and feminine nouns, respectively, while the indefinite articles "un" and "une" follow the same gender pattern.

French nouns also have singular and plural forms. Pluralization often involves adding specific endings to the noun, and this change in number also affects the associated articles. For example, "le livre" (the book, singular) becomes "les livres" (the books, plural) with the plural definite article "les." Similarly, "un livre" (a book, singular) becomes "des livres" (some books, plural) with the plural indefinite article "des."

Adjectives, articles, and other modifiers must agree in gender and number with their accompanying nouns. So, you can see how important knowing the gender and number of nouns is when putting together French sentences. If you want to put your knowledge to the test and start having real conversations, download Tandem and match with a native French speaker.

Until then, consider this example of French noun agreement. If describing a feminine noun such as "la table" (the table), any adjectives used to describe it must also be in the feminine form, such as "la grande table" (the big table). Similarly, when referring to multiple tables (les tables), the definite article and any accompanying adjectives must be plural.

In French and English, the basic word order in declarative sentences follows the subject-verb-object (SVO) pattern. This means that the subject performs the action expressed by the verb, and the object receives the action. For example:

There are also differences in creating negative sentences. In French, the word "ne" precedes the conjugated verb, and "pas" (or other negative words) follows it to form a negative sentence. In English, "not" is usually placed after the verb. For example:

While French typically follows a subject-verb-object word order, it's not as strict as English. It's quite common to rearrange elements of French grammar for stylistic or rhetorical purposes. This allows you to create unique responses and expressions for specific contexts or when you want to emphasize something.

Additionally, French employs a variety of sentence connectors, such as conjunctions and adverbs, which can alter the order of clauses or phrases within a sentence. Some examples of how you can change a sentence are as follows: