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Brainmap Your Progress

French brainmapVisualize your French progress with the PwLF Brainmap. The color-coded overview shows your strengths and weaknesses by level and topic, and you can drill down to access individual lessons. Prove your mastery by turning the whole map green!
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Imperfect Subjunctive

French imperfect subjunctiveThe imperfect subjunctive is a literary verb form, meaning that it's reserved for formal, written French - mainly literature, but also history and journalism.
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Informal Pronouns

French informal pronounsPronoun usage and pronunciation varies greatly between formal and informal French. Much of what you learn at school is formal and doesn't reflect how French is actually spoken. If you want to sound more French in informal situations—not to mention understand what you hear—you need to be aware of these pronoun differences.
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Inversion with je

French inversionInversion with the first person singular je is a little trickier than with other subject pronouns. It's also very formal and therefore rare, so one of those grammar concepts you need to recognize but not necessarily use.
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Ne littéraire

Ne littéraire - Formal French NegationIn formal, usually written French, there are certain verbs and constructions that can be made negative with just ne - the inclusion of pas or some other negative word is not required.
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Pluperfect Subjunctive

French pluperfect subjunctiveThe rarest French verb form is the pluperfect subjunctive. It's a literary tense, meaning that it's reserved for formal, written French - mainly literature, but also history and journalism.
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Progress with Lawless FrenchTake your Progress with Lawless French account to the next level with these super study lists that bring together all the lessons on a particular grammar topic.
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Substitute que

French conjunction queThere's a way to use the subordinating conjunction que that isn't often taught in school: as a substitute for another conjunction. This usage is neither informal nor unusual, but it is limited to a specific construction and for a specific reason.
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Superlative Subjunctive

French superlative subjunctiveThe subjunctive is optional with limits and superlatives: it depends on whether the speaker knows whether what s/he is saying is true.

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-age Suffix

French suffix -age
The French suffix -age is added to verbs or nouns to make new nouns, which are always masculine.

-ci Suffix

French suffix -ciUnlike other French suffixes, -ci does not create new words, but rather adds additional meaning to the nouns and pronouns it's attached to.

-ée Suffix

French suffix -ée
The French suffix -ée is added to nouns or verbs to make new nouns, which are usually feminine.

-et and -ette Suffix

French suffix -et
The French suffixes -et (masculine) and -ette (feminine) can be added to nouns (including proper nouns), verbs, and adjectives.

-issime Suffix

French suffix -issime
The French suffix -issime is added to adjectives and acts as an intensifier or superlative, adding meanings like "very," "extremely," or "most."

-là Suffix

French suffix là-Unlike other French suffixes, -là does not create new words, but rather adds additional meaning to the nouns and pronouns it's added to.

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