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Relative adjectives are rare in both French and English, as they are found primarily in legal, administrative, and other very formal language. The French relative pronoun lequel creates a link between a preceding antecedent and a following noun.
adjectives • B2 - Upper-Intermediate French
As a relative pronoun, lequel replaces an indirect object after a preposition. 
French has five past tenses/moods that are restricted to formal, written French. They were once common in spoken French, offering nuances that no longer exist today. 
French verbs related to love and hate (aimer, adorer, détester, haïr) can be confusing when it comes to using pronouns: when you want to say something like "I like it" - is it ever ok to say Je l'aime? 
The French word lui functions as two different types of pronouns and refers to both genders - but only sometimes. 
The regular -er French verb manquer means "to miss," which seems straightforward enough, and yet it causes no end of confusion due to a strange turnaround it requires in a certain construction. Don't miss this lesson! A2 - Low-Intermediate French • prepositions • verbs • word order
A2 - Low-Intermediate French • gender • nouns
The mountain of French verb conjugations you have to learn can be overwhelming - even just in the classroom where you have plenty of time to think about the correct response. Once you start talking to people in the real world, trying to figure out the appropriate verb conjugation can leave you speechless - literally. So what's the solution? Learn, then practice, practice, practice! 
The French words mauvais and mal can be tricky for French students because they both belong to three different parts of speech and have similar meanings. If you have a poor understanding of the difference, it wouldn't be a bad idea to read this lesson. adjectives • adverbs • nouns
The French pronouns me and te are both three different types of pronouns, with different purposes and translations. 
The French words meilleur and mieux can be tricky for French students because they are the comparative/superlative forms of the oft-confused words bon and bien, respectively. This lesson is your best bet for gaining a better understanding of this confusing pair. adjectives • adverbs • nouns
When naming the object of your appreciation, there's a bit of grammar involved. Depending on what you're actually saying "thank you" for, you must choose between two prepositions: de and pour. 
The irregular French verb mettre usually means "to put" but has some additional meanings and can also be used pronominally. 
There's no such thing as modal verbs in French, so translating them from English requires a bit of creative thinking. Usually you need a normal (conjugatable) French verb in a particular tense or mood, but you can sometimes use just an adverb. 
Verb conjugation tables for more than 1,600 French verbs in all the simple and compound tenses and moods.
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.
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