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Grammaire Francaise
Here we find questions about the grammatical rules that govern French expressions and sentences. Typically, contributors ask about verb tenses, stems and roots of words, spelling, pronunciation, and agreement of adjectives and nouns in gender (masculine/feminine) and number (singular/plural).
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Can you answer in French -il y a combien de jours dans use semaine?
Question : Il y a combien de jours dans une semaine ?
Réponse : Il y a sept jours dans une semaine.
Ou : Une semaine comprend sept jours.
What is revenu in the form of passe compose with etre?
Revenir - to return
Je suis revenu(e)
Tu es revenu(e)
Il/elle/on est revenu(e)(s)
Nous sommes revenu(e)s
vous êtes revenu(e)s
ils/elles sont revenu(e)s
What does 'l'homme c'est rien l'oeuvre c'est tout' mean?
The sentence 'L'homme c'est rien. L'oeuvre c'est tout' means [The individual] man is nothing. The overall work [or mankind] is everything. In the word-by-word translation, the definite article 'le'* means 'the'. The noun 'homme' means 'man'. The demonstrative pronoun 'ce'* means 'this'. The verb 'est' means '[he/she/it] is'. The noun 'rien' means 'nothing'. The noun 'oeuvre' means '[overall or body of creative] work'. And the noun 'tout' means 'all, everything'.
*The letter 'e' drops before a word that begins with a non-aspirated vowel.
At the end of his Sherlock Holmes story, "the red-headed league" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle attributes this to Gustave Flaubert (writing to George Sand).
What is a circumflex accent in French?
The circumflex accent (in French: l'accent circonflexe) is the accent shaped like a little roof, that you find for instance in 'forêt'. It often replaces a "s" that has been dropped from the word: forêt was formerly written forest, hôpital was written hospital, and so on.
Is course in french masculine or feminine?
Course (race) is femenine: une course, la course. Cours (as in class) is masculine: un cours, le cours.
Why do the french call the past tense the past perfect?
There are several different tenses in French which express things that happened in the past. The imparfait expresses things that were repeated or were continuing in the past. For instance: When I was a little girl, I spent every Saturday with my grandmother. The passe compose expresses things that were started and finished in the past. Eg: When I was ten, I bought my first bicycle.
The French do not have a tense which they call the past perfect. The tense that we refer to as the past perfect is called "perfect" because it is an occurrence that has been completed in the past (as opposed to something that was continuous or repeating, which would be expressed by the imparfait). GThey do have a tense called the plusque parfait (literally, more than perfect), which expresses things like: By the time I was ten, I had learned three languages. Lorsque j'avais dix ans, j'avais appris trois langues. These are actions that were completed before another action took place - I learned three languages (first completion) before I turned ten (second event).
hope that helps :)
How do you reply quelle est la date aujour 'hui?
That means "what's the date today" so you would reply with the date
How do you answer comment s'appelle le prof de Français?
"Comment s'appelle le prof de français?" means 'What is the French Teacher's name".
A name is a name and most can't be translated into French, but for Ex:
Nick = Nicholas
Robert = Robert
Depending in what your ethnics are, your name may be already French.
How do you pronounce the french word aigle?
e like elephant
gle like the "gl" in glue
go on google translate and you can hear it ;)
Is the word spinach in french masculine or feminine?
épinard is a masculine noun, most often used in the plural form : des épinards.
Is the word tortoise a feminine or masculine word?
In English, the word "tortoise" is considered neutral or common gender, meaning it does not have a specific feminine or masculine connotation. It is used to refer to both male and female tortoises.
What is it about french language that makes it seemingly more romantic than other languages?
French itself is not more "romantic" than any other language in the world. All depends on the image or stereotypes that you link with one language. It seems that in many countries the people link Frenchness with romanticism (image of old towns in france are advertised as "romantic" in most touristic medias). So, people tend to associate "french" with the concept of "romantism". Outside of this, there is the fact that french is part of the latin-based languages, also called "romance languages" (like Italian, Spanish or Portuguese), that is to say a language that comes from latin, the language of Rome. This has nothing to see with the concept of romanticism, but many people may confuse because the words "romance" and "romantic" sound similar.
What is the feminine form of the French adjective national?
Nationale (feminine), national (masculine). The difference is in the final "e"
How do you do sigh language in french?
Salut: Some of the letters are different than in american (a, j, p, and a couple others), and of course there are different signs for some words. Even in the US, the signs might change as one travels from the north to the south, for example. sign languange is a language, and has all of the characteristics of other languages (dialects, word changes, different meanings, and, if you can understand me, different sounds).
One has to study sign in french the same as one wold in the US. Good luck.
