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#Sentence
❗️The most easy and the most informal method to ask what something is:
*️⃣ C’est quoi? = What is it? / What is that? / What is this?
imagine that you heard the words ” une maison“.
You don’t know what it is, so you ask about it: C’est quoi une maison ? (What is a house?)
❗️You would thus use the construction:
*️⃣c’est quoi + (article) + (chose) = what is it + (article) + (thing)
➖C’est quoi un ananas ? (What is a pineapple?)
➖C’est quoi le vrai problème ? (What’s the real issue here?)
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#Nouns
Typical Masculine Endings
❗️Ending Example
-eau le château
-isme le cyclisme
-ment le médicament
➖Je voudrais vivre dans un château.
I would like to live in a castle.
➖J’adore le cyclisme.
I love cycling.
➖Vous devez prendre le médicament !
You must take the medicine!
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#Vocabulary
Time
❗️If you want to talk about minutes past the hour, then you will use the following idiom:
*️⃣[heure] [minutes] = [minutes] past [hour]
➖Il est deux heures dix. (It is ten past two.)
❗️if you want to talk about half hours in French, then you will use the following idiom:
*️⃣(heure) et demie = half past (hour)
➖Il est sept heures et demie. (It is half past seven.)
➖Il est midi et demi. (It is half past noon.)
➖Il est minuit et demi. (It is half past midnight.)
❗️If you want to talk about minutes to the hour, then you will use the following idiom:
*️⃣[heure] moins [minutes] = [minutes] to [hour]
➖Il est trois heures moins cinq. (It is five to three.)
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#Vocabulary
Time
❗️Midnight and noon don’t need heure(s) after them. All other hours must have heure(s) after them.
➖Il est midi. It is noon.
➖Il est minuit. It is midnight.
❗️if you want to be more precise, you can add the following terms:
*️⃣ du matin (in the morning)
*️⃣ de l’après-midi (in the afternoon)
*️⃣ du soir (in the evening, which starts at 6PM)
➖Il est sept heures du matin. (It is 7 AM.)
➖Il est deux heures et demie de l’après-midi. (It is two-thirty PM.)
➖Il est sept heures du soir. (It is 7 PM.)
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#Vocabulary
Dates
❗️Quelle date sommes-nous aujourd'hui? (What's the date today?)
*️⃣Aujourd'hui nous sommes le 15 janvier 2023. (Today is January 15, 2023)
*️⃣Aujourd'hui nous sommes le dimanche 15 janvier 2023. (Today is Sunday, January 15, 2023.)
For a more informal way of speaking, you can replace “nous sommes” with “on est”, which is more widely used in oral communication.
❗️Quelle est la date aujourd’hui ? (What’s today’s date?)
*️⃣On est le 20 décembre 2022. (It's December 20, 2022)
*️⃣On est le lundi 20 décembre 2022. (Today is Monday, December 20, 2022.)
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#Vocabulary
Dates
❗️If you want to mention a date in French you have to use the following idiom:
🔹 le+ number + month + year 🔹
- le 2 août 2008
2nd August, 2008
❗️in French you use deux (2), trois (3), quatre (4…) and not deuxième (2e), troisième (3e), quatrième (4e…) for dates.
This is consistent for all numbers except for the 1st.
- le 1er juin 2000 (Le premier juin 2000)
1st of June 2000
❗️Finally there’s one more thing that you should be aware of.
You say le onze and not l’onze
- le 11 octobre (le onze octobre)
11th of October
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#Vocabulary
Months
🔅In French, the months don’t begin with a capital letter.
janvier January
février February
mars March
avril April
mai May
juin June
juillet July
août August
septembre September
octobre October
novembre November
décembre December
- Mon anniversaire est en septembre.
My birthday is in September.
🔅Write in the comments in which month your birthday is.
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#Vocabulary
Days
🔅When you mention a day in the week, you always have to use le before it.
- Le samedi est mon jour préféré.
Saturday is my favourite day.
- Le mercredi, je joue au football.
On Wednesday, I play football.
🔅The only time when you don’t have to put "le" before a day is when you mention a one time event, or ask which day it is.
- Je vais au musée mardi.
I am going to the museum on Tuesday.
- Dimanche, je vais au cinéma.
Sunday, I am going to the cinema.
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#Vocabulary
Days & Weeks
- Quel jour sommes-nous? (What day is it?)
- Aujourd’hui, nous sommes jeudi. (Today it’s Thursday.)
lundi ▫️Monday
mardi ▫️Tuesday
mercredi ▫️Wednesday
jeudi ▫️Thursday
vendredi ▫️Friday
samedi ▫️Saturday
dimanche ▫️Sunday
la semaine ▫️the week
le week-end ▫️the weekend
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#Vocabulary
Synonyms and similarities
*️⃣Tu as quel âge ? (“How old are you?“)
*️⃣T’as quel âge ? (“How old are you?“)(Familiar)
*️⃣Quel âge tu as ? (“How old are you?“)
*️⃣Vous avez quel âge ? (“How old are you?“)(Formal & Plural)
*️⃣Quel âge avez-vous ? (“How old are you?“)(Formal & Plural)
*️⃣Quel âge a-t-elle ? (“How old is she?“)
*️⃣Quel âge elle a ? (“How old is she?“)
*️⃣Quel âge a-t-il ? (“How old is he?“)
*️⃣Quel âge il a ? (“How old is he?“)
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#Verb
Usage of Avoir
Avoir means “to have” and is an irregular verb. There are 4 general usages for the verb avoir in French:
*️⃣The verb avoir is used to say one’s age
➖J’ai 30 ans. (I am 30.)
*️⃣To talk about one’s family, friends, and loved ones.
➖Tu as une petite amie française? (Do you have a French girlfriend?)
*️⃣To talk about one’s possesions
➖Il a un ordinateur. (He has a computer.)
*️⃣To talk about certain sensations/feelings one has.
➖Nous avons faim. (We are hungry.)
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#Sentence
Synonyms and similarities
*️⃣C’est quoi ça ? (“What is that?“)
*️⃣C’est quoi ? (“What is that?“)
*️⃣Qu’est-ce que c’est que ça? (“Whats is that?“)
*️⃣Kezaco ? (“Whats is it?“) (Slang)
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#Sentence
❗️Medium Formal Method for asking ” what is this?”
Generally this method can be used in any situation, both formal and informal.
*️⃣ Qu’est-ce que c’est ? = What is it? / What is that? / What is this?
You would thus use the construction:
*️⃣ qu’est-ce que c’est + (article) + (chose) = what is + (article) + (thing)
➖Qu’est-ce que c’est un vélo? (What is a bicycle?)
➖Qu’est-ce que c’est le bonheur ? (What is happiness?)
❗️Most Formal Method for asking ” what is this?”
*️⃣ Qu’est-ce que cela ? = What is this? / What is that?
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#Nouns
Typical Feminine Endings
❗️Ending Example
-ade la promenade
-ode la mode
-ude l’altitude
-ance l’ambulance
-ence l’essence
-ette la cigarette
-sion la collision
-tion la circulation
-ure la culture
❗️Generally speaking if a word end with an -e or -sion/-tion, then you can assume it’s feminine.
➖La mode à Paris est magnifique.
The fashion in Paris is beautiful.
➖L’altitude me fait peur, parce que j’ai peur des hauteurs.
The altitude scares me, because I am scared of heights.
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Write in the comments the French translation of the phrase "It's twenty minutes to 2 o'clock now."
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#Vocabulary
❗️The best way to say “I don’t care” in French is in the following way:
ça m’est égal = I don’t care
The literal translation is “It is equal to me”.
*️⃣Ça m’est égal. I don’t care/mind.
*️⃣Ça t’est égal. You don’t care/mind.
*️⃣Ça lui est égal. He (She) doesn’t care/mind.
*️⃣Ça nous est égal. We don’t care/mind.
*️⃣Ça vous est égal. You don’t care/mind.
*️⃣Ça leur est égal. They don’t mind.
Please note that "ça" is the less formal form of "cela".
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#Vocabulary
Time
12 Hour Clock Versus 24 Hour Clock
If you are from an English speaking country, odds are you are used to using the 12-hour clock.
In France however, the 24-hour clock is preferred.
❗️You have to use the following idiom to tell time in French
*️⃣ il est + [heure] = it is [time]*️⃣
➖Quelle heure est-il ? (What time is it?)
➖Il est une heure. (It is one o’clock.)
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#Vocabulary
🔤🔤🔤🔤🔤
Write in French in the comments to the post the following dates 🔤
*️⃣Second of October
*️⃣Eleventh of May
*️⃣First of April
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#Vocabulary
#Verb
Write in the comment the question in French "Whose book (ce livre) is this?"
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