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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.

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The existing major works on the history of the French language were published more than fifty years ago and are characterized by a largely a-theoretical approach. More than a hundred years after Ferdinand Brunot began to publish his monumental work, the ambition of the Grande Grammaire Historique du Franais (GGHF) is to present the evolution of the French language in its totality, building on the contributions achieved by descriptive and theoretical research in recent decades. It also offers several innovative aspects.

The GGHF is a grammar organized by themes rather than by periods, and it reflects all major areas currently under debate in linguistics (phonetics / phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, etc.). In addition, it is based on a balanced corpus of several million words that has been designed especially for the GGHF (with a selection of representative texts for each century). The consideration of this corpus and the quantification of facts enable the authors to establish a close relationship between variation and change: we believe that the interaction of these two aspects is the cornerstone for the interpretation of the evolution of French and of language in general. In addition to the description of the evolution of French, the analysis of language change thus also aims to contribute to the study of the evolution of language as such.

The first group of regular verbs are verbs that end in -er. The second group of regular verbs are verbs that end in -ir. The last group of verbs includes those that end in -re. Here are some examples:

1. Le prsent is the present tense in French. This is the tense that lets us know that an action is happening right now. It is important to note that the French present tense encompasses different present tenses from English.

2. Le pass compos is a compound tense that is used to talk about the perfect past in French. It is a compound tense because it has two verb pieces: an auxiliary verb, tre (to be) or avoir (to have), and the main verb with a changed ending.

8. Le futur antrieur talks about a future action that will have occurred. It uses the future tense of an auxiliary verb, tre or avoir, as well as the past participle.

Opposite to the aspect perfectif is the aspect imperfectif. This aspect lets us know that an action is not completed. This can occur in any tense, but it is shown in the verb endings of a verb tense that we already know. You guessed it: the imparfait.

If we want to emphasize this aspect, however, we can add supplementary details to the sentence. For example, en train de (in the middle of) emphasizes the progressive aspect of a sentence.

The indicative mood lets the listener know that the speaker is pretty confident about what they are saying. In fact, the indicative mood lets us know that what is being conveyed to us is fact (or the speaker believes it is fact).

The subjunctive mood is used to express doubt, desire or even fear. It can be used for proposals and demands. There are also set expressions which trigger the subjunctive, notably in subordinate clauses following que.

An adjectif pithte is one that emphasizes a certain characteristic of a noun. As such, the adjective is placed right beside the noun, either before or after depending on which adjective it is and the meaning of the adjective.

Technically, determiners are adjectives, and they indicate which noun is being talked about. Definite and indefinite articles are determiners, and other common determiners include ce (this/that) and quel (which) as well as possessive adjectives such as mon (my), which show who owns the noun in question.

Many adverbs are words of their own that do not have a specific ending. There is a selection of adverbs that end in -ment. These are generally derived from adjectives, as in the example of rapidement (quickly).

Subordinating conjunctions connect two clauses that do not have the same value. The main clause can stand on its own, but the subordinating clause (or the dependant clause) could not be its own sentence.

The first is an inversion of the subject and the verb as in the question as-tu un livre ? (do you have a book?). The second is to add the words est-ce que to the declarative sentence as in est-ce que tu as un livre ? (do you have a book?). These are the common forms for yes/no questions.

However, when you first begin learning, making connections (and noting differences) with English will help you establish a working knowledge of French faster than if you approach it with no knowledge at all.

Courses like Ma France will guide you as you establish a working knowledge of French grammar. The French phrases resource will introduce you to French slang and common phrases that you can start incorporating into your conversations.

The creators had a sense of humor, because the website is designed to help students learn grammar through cartoons. The grammar concepts are separated into various categories (verbs, nouns, sentence structure, etc.), explained in English and then used in a dialogue. Quizzes accompany each lesson to reinforce the learned information.

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When you first enter the wonderful world of French, and your first language is English, French can seem incredibly complicated. Like any Latin language, French has divided its world into two: the feminine and the masculine. Any object, concept, idea, or person is either masculine or feminine. Be thankful that some languages like German have more than two genders.

This is another well-known puzzle for beginners who are learning French. Which prepositions should you use with each of the countries? In French, each country has a gender. This means that the countries are either feminine or masculine. How do you know this? You have to look at how the word ends:

This is a common grammatical error because the nuance is subtle and your mother tongue sometimes does not make this difference. It is the distinction between two notions: identification and description.

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French has two genders, feminine and masculine. These are used not only for people, but for objects, such as tables, chairs, pens, and paper, as well as more abstract ideas, such as honesty, exuberance, and courage. Any noun will have a gender and the adjectives and determiners that modify these nouns will have to agree with them, meaning that adjectives and determiners also have gender.

French grammar behaves the way it does because it evolved from Latin, which also attributes gender to objects and ideas as well as people. There is, in fact, a third gender in Latin, which is neuter, so we can be glad to only have to learn two genders in French!

What helps us memorize French grammar rules like gender? Memorizing units of language places words in context and gives models for language, so instead of memorizing lists of specific words, try memorizing words along with other words that indicate gender such as:

Approaching the issue of gender in the French language may take a bit more effort than in other languages, but there are patterns that will guide you and knowing these patterns, along with repeating them often, is a way to familiarize yourself with the gender of words in French. Remember each gender as a category, and each noun, pronoun, adjective, and determiner as being part of either one or the other category. Also, while producing phrases that correctly use gender might take a fair amount of effort, keeping track of who says what and what happened to whom while listening to someone else might actually be easier, since all the gender agreement distinguishes the different elements of phrases and their characteristics and will not get lost, even in the longest and most complex sentences.