Indirect Objects
An indirect object is a person that someone or something does something to indirectly. In both French and English, indirect objects are often replaced with indirect object pronouns. Grammar Lessons
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An indirect object is a person that someone or something does something to indirectly. In both French and English, indirect objects are often replaced with indirect object pronouns. A2 - Low-Intermediate French • prepositions • pronouns • word order
Indirect Speech
Indirect speech is considerably more complicated than direct speech as it involves several grammatical changes when reporting another person's words. Infinitive
The French infinitive, which always ends in -er, -ir, or -re, serves as the name of any given verb. It's what you look up in dictionaries and verb conjugation tables, so it's important to learn the infinitive of every new verb you see or hear. A2 - Low-Intermediate French • tenses moods voices • word order
Informal Negation
The rule is that to make a French verb negative, you need ne in front of the verb and pas after it. The reality of how the French speak says otherwise. B1 - Intermediate French • informalities • negation
Informal Pronouns
Pronoun 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. C1 - Advanced French • informalities • pronouns
Informal Questions
In addition to the "correct" ways to ask questions in French, there are several ways to ask them informally. Intermediate French for Dummies
Get up to speed in the usage and grammar of French and improve your writing - by Laura K Lawless. A2 - Low-Intermediate French • B1 - Intermediate French
Interrogative Adjectives
When asking someone to make a choice between two or more things, you need the interrogative adjective quel, meaning "which" or "what." A2 - Low-Intermediate French • adjectives • questions
Interrogative Adverbs
When, where, why, how? Use interrogative adverbs to ask these informational questions. A2 - Low-Intermediate French • adverbs • questions
Interrogative Pronouns
Who, what, which one? Use interrogative pronouns to ask these questions, which are a little more complicated in French than in English. A2 - Low-Intermediate French • pronouns • questions
Introduction to Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun or noun phrase in order to avoid repeating the noun over and over. Introduction to Verb Conjugation
When you start learning French, it's not just French vocabulary you have to get used to - you're also introduced to a whole new world of grammatical terms. For many students, one of the most daunting of these is verb conjugations. Just what is a verb conjugation and what does it mean to conjugate a verb? A1 - Beginning French • conjugation lessons • verbs
Introduction to Verbs
Verbs are action words that express the action or state of being of a sentence. French verbs have up to six different conjugations for each tense and mood. Invariable Adjectives
Most French adjectives have to agree with their nouns in gender and number, but there are many exceptions, known as invariable adjectives. These have just one unchanging form no matter the gender and number of the noun they modify. Inversion
The normal word order in French and English is subject + verb, as in vous êtes - "you are." Both languages also have what is known as inversion, where the verb and subject pronoun switch places, resulting in êtes-vous - "are you." In English, inversion is used only to ask questions, but in French it has several different purposes. 
In English, we say that the vowels are "a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y." The last couple of words hint at one of the keys to understanding pronunciation: a vowel is not so much a letter as the sound represented by a letter or combination of letters.