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Verbs (French Grammar)

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Making Sense of French Verb Conjugations

Verbs (Action Words)
Tell us what is happening and when

Verb Tenses
Verb Moods

Regular vs Irregular Verbs
Verb Endings er, ir, yer

Verb List

Verb Tenses refer to various times (present, past, future)
Verb Moods correspond to different functions (indicative, infinitive, imperative)
Most Popular Verbs
Exceptions

Participles words formed from a verb and used as an adjective or a noun

Index of Verb Terms Verb Phases
Masculine and Feminine Verb Endings
Agreement with Verbs

Present Indicative

Immediate Future Tense
In French

Infinitives of Verbs
In French
verbs used with an infinitive Beginnings: commencer à
Il faut and infinives

Reciprocal Verbs
French Reciprocal Verbs lovetoknow.com

Reflexive Verbs
Reflexive vs Non-Reflexive Verbs
Conjugating Reflexive Verbs CliffsNotes
Agreement of past participles
Reciprocal vs Reflexive Verbs

Moi Mots
Elements of Grammar

Determiners (French Grammar)

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French Determiners

Articles
Qualifiers
and other Determiners modify nouns

Definite Articles
In French (le, la, l’, les)
Partitive Use of Definite Articles
Partitive Use of Definite Articles, Posative and Negative
contractions with a and de with la and les

Indefinite Articles
In French (un, une, des, and de)

En used with determinatives

prepositions and articles
Articles and prepositions with geographical names:
Féminins (en, de)
Masculins (au, du, dans le)
la, le, l’

Elements of Grammar

Nouns (French Grammar)

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Nouns are people, places, or things
-Pronouns
-Nouns of Gender
-Singular or Plural

Noun List

Gender of Nouns Present Tense
Masculine and Feminine Endings
Gender and Number Agreement
Determining Masculine or Feminine
Feminine Nouns Ending in -euse (-eur, -euse, -eux, -euse)
Masculine and feminine forms ‘l ‘lle
Agreement with Nouns
-propositions do not agree with nouns
-regular adjectives do agree with nouns

Masculine Nouns

Nouns ending in -age
Plural of words ending in -age
Masculine Nouns ending in -age
Series of Nouns ending in -age which refer to Activity
freiner -> le freinage

Plural of words ending in -au, -eau, -al, and -ail

Pronouns
Personal Pronouns

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Grammar
French Grammar
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Nouns Nouns are people, places, or things
Verbs Action words which tell us what is happening and when
Adjectives Adjectives modify, or describe, nouns
Adverbs Adverbs modify verbs (or adjectives, or other adverbs)
Determiners Articles, quantifiers, and other determiners modify nouns
Questions (and Punctuation)
Vocabulary (Terms and Opposites)
Expressions and Phrases (Negation)
Prepositions Words which link two related parts of a sentence (à, de, en)
Conjunctions Provide a link between similar words or groups of words, such as nouns, verbs, people, etc
Exceptions

English Grammar Guide edufind.com
French Grammar Guide LanguageGuide.org
French Grammar For Dummies Dummies.com
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