Grammaire Francaise

About French offers many different 'classes' on French including an introductory to French verbs. There is also Rosetta Stone which seems to get high reviews when it comes to learning another language.

Oublier is a French verb meaning 'to forget'. Conjugations (1st group, regular 'er' verbs) in link below.

"Bonne chance" is the correct spelling. Chance is a feminine noun, so is the adjective bonne.

In the perfect tense, "jouer" (to play) is conjugated as follows:

• J'ai joué (I played)
• Tu as joué (You played)
• Il/Elle a joué (He/She played)
• Nous avons joué (We played)
• Vous avez joué (You played)
• Ils/Elles ont joué (They played)

Imparfait :

j'habitais (I was living...)

tu habitais

il, elle habitait

nous habitions

vous habitiez

ils habitaient

passé composé :

J'ai habité (I had been living)

tu as habité

il, elle a habité

nous avons habité

vous avez habité

ils, elles ont habité

complete conjugations in link below.

The French word "aide" is feminine.

Un piano (masculine noun)

In French, "apricot" (abricot) is a masculine noun.

Une région (feminine noun)

"jean" is a masculine noun in French. "Des jeans" is plural, but still masculine.

Et is a liaison word, so you would expect to find it in the middle of a sentence. However we can use it at the start of a sentence, if that sentence is a continuation of the previous one, this is common in spoken French, and still correct.

Ex: J'ai vu Hélène et ses soeurs. Et j'ai vu son père aussi, il marchait un peu derrière elles. (I saw Helen and her sisters. And I saw her father as wel, he was walking a little behind them.

Il y a ... means "there is ..." in French. Ex: allez jouer dehors, il y a du soleil (go play outside, there is sun) - il y a une heure que je t'attends (there is an hour that I'm waiting for you) - dans ma chambre il y a un lit (in my bedroom there is a bed).

The "a" is a form of the verb "avoir" (third person singular, present tense), so there isn't any accent on it.

Boum! is the explosion sound that you write "boom!" in English.

j'ai entendu un boum dans le moteur (I heard a boom in the engine)

Une boum (fem.) is a party with music and dancing, organised by and for teenagers.

j'ai dansé avec elle à la boum (I danced with her at the party)

La grenouille is a "female" gender word.

There is no gender distinction for frogs, like cats or dogs, chat/chatte chien/chienne.

The word "fly", in French, is feminine. When you want to say "the fly", you will say "la mouche".

Savant is an adjective (or noun) coming from "savoir", to know.

Il est très savant (adjective, masculine) (he is very knowledgeable, he knows a lot) - feminine: savante.

C'est une histoire de savant fou (noun, masculine) (this is a story about a mad scientist)

Leur is a possessive, but has no gender. It stands for "their". You can use it for females owning a feminine thing: Les filles sont retournées � leur voiture (the girls went back to their car), or for males owning a masculine-noun thing: les garçons cherchent leur ballon (the boys are looking for their balloon).
When it is written "leur", several people own a common thing (leur voiture: there are several girls, but they're all in the same car); the plural writing "leurs" indicate that there are several people, but also several things.

The French have feminine and masculine words for African: africain (noun or adjective, masculine) and africaine (noun or adjective, feminine).

Un sandwich is a masculine noun in French.

Love is "amour", a masculine noun in French.

Un compliment is a masculine noun in French.

The past participle of "avoir" is "eu".

In French, "town" is feminine and is translated as "la ville."

Jouer is an "er" verb, and conjugates as "aimer".
future : j'aimerai > je jouerai
imparfait : j'aimais > je jouais
passé composé : j'ai aimé > j'aijoué.
Link goes to the conjugations for jouer.