Expressions
French Expressions
Expressions, tournures, idiotismes, locutions
Idiomatic expressions (idioms), proverbs, everyday expressions – lots of lessons to help you speak French like the natives.
Garbled Expressions
Grâce à
Gueule de bois
Haut comme trois pommes
Heureux au jeu, malheureux en amour
Histoire d’animaux
B2 - Upper-Intermediate French
Histoires d’argent
B2 - Upper-Intermediate French
Holiday Expressions
Honi soit qui mal y pense
Il était une fois
Il m’aime un peu, beaucoup, passionnément, à la folie, pas du tout
Il ne casse pas trois pattes à un canard
Il pleut des cordes
Il y a
The French lessons and comprehension exercises on this site are ranked according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), which describes six levels of language proficiency.
When a word ending in a normally silent consonant is followed by a vowel or h muet, that consonant might be transferred onto the next word. This is called a liaison and it's one of the aspects of French pronunciation that can make it difficult to determine where one word ends and the next begins.
Aller is one of the most common and important French verbs. It generally means "to go," is key to the near future construction, and is also found in many expressions. This issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at going everywhere with 