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Quand (When) French
When to use Quel in a french questions (French for Dummies)
Quand es-tu parti? (When did you leave?)
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Quel (Which or What) French
When to use Quel in a french questions (French for Dummies)
À quel âge as-tu appris â nager? (At what age did you learn to swim?)
Qu’est-ce que c’est (direct question)
Ce que c’est (indirect question)
Semivowels (French)
Subjunctive Mood (French)
Subjective Mood (Le Subjonctif)
Subjunctive: express desires, doubts, the unknown, the abstract, and emotions
Indicative: express actions, events, and states that are believed to be true and concrete
The subjunctive mood is used to express actions or ideas which are subjective or otherwise uncertain:
doubt (subjunctive with expressions of doubt)
possibility,(subjunctive with expressions of possibility)
necessity, (subjunctive with expressions of necessity)
emotion, (subjunctive with expressions of emotion)
will/wanting (subjunctive with expressions of will and wanting)
judgement (subjunctive with expressions of judgement)
Subjunctive expressions of:
Preferences, Advice, Needs, Desires, Orders (PANDO)
Judgments, Emotions, Feelings (JEF)
Possibilities, Opinions, Doubts, Suppositions (PODS)
(some of these verbs call for the ne explétif)
Subjunctive indicating purpose
subordinate clause indicating purpose
Subjunctive and implicit negation
Subjunctive with conditional expressions
Subjunctive with superlatives expressions que nous ayons
(mentions subjective context – within a limited frame of reference vs absolute)
Subjunctive in relative clauses after qui and que to specify things that exist in the speaker’s mind but that may not actually be available in reality
Introducing the French Subjunctive french.about.com
Understanding French Subjunctive frenchtoday
Simple Tense:
Present subjunctive
Imperfect subjunctive
Compound Tense:
The Past Subjective Passé du subjonctif
Pluperfect subjunctive
Completely Irregular Subjective Forms
aller, pouboir, savoir, faire
avoir, être, aller, valoir, vouloir
aller, falloir, valoir, vouloire
forms of the Subjunctive cliffnotes.com
R Nouns (French)
Nouns beginning with R
Rein (Nothing)
If you think de rien is the best way to respond to merci, you should definitely read this lesson Lawless French
L – Verbs (French)
Negation (French)
Single Negation ne . . . pas
Multiple Negation ne ni ni
Restrictive Negation ne . . . que
plus rien (“more nothing”)
jamais rien (“never nothing”)
Infinitives (French)
Infinitives Infinitif
Infinitives Infinitif
Verbs used with infinitives
commencer à a preceding infinitive
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