À
The French preposition à is generally summarized as "to, at, or in," but it has quite a few more meanings and uses than that. A1 – Beginning French
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The French preposition à is generally summarized as "to, at, or in," but it has quite a few more meanings and uses than that. A1 - Beginning French • prepositions
À l’hôtel
A1 - Beginning French • travel French
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Accents
While French has the same alphabet as English, some of the letters have little decorations that can make them look and sound very different. In French, accents are essential: they're there for a reason, so you must include them when writing. A1 - Beginning French • accents • spelling
Achats dans une grande surface
Adjectives
One of the eight parts of speech, adjectives are a type of modifier. They serve the same purpose in French and English, but they are very different in two respects. A1 - Beginning French • adjectives • agreement • lesson plans • word order
Adverbs
French adverbs are descriptors: they can modify several different parts of speech, including themselves. Virtually every French word that ends in -ment is an adverb, equivalent to -ly in English. A1 - Beginning French • adverbs
Airport
A1 - Beginning French • travel French
Aller – Near Future
You can explain what will happen in the near future with the construction aller + infinitive; for example, L'avion va atterrir ici - "The plane is going to land here." A1 - Beginning French • tenses moods voices
Aller – to go
Aller is one of the most common and useful French verbs and has irregular conjugations in most tenses and moods. Aller literally means "to go" and is required to create the near future. Alphabet
If you want to read and write in French, one of the first things you should learn is the alphabet. Fortunately, French has the same 26 letters as English. Unfortunately, most of the names of letters are pronounced differently, as are many of the sounds. A1 - Beginning French • spelling
Answering Questions
In English, you can only answer yes / no questions with variations on the themes of yes, no, and I don't know. French, however, has another possibility: yes in response to no. A1 - Beginning French • questions
Arriver – to arrive, happen
The French verb arriver usually means "to arrive" or "to happen." It's a regular -er verb that requires être as its auxiliary verb in compound tenses/moods. Articles – le, la, les, un, une, des, du, de la
An article is a word that modifies a noun in a particular way, by stating whether the noun is specific, unspecific, or partial. There are three types of French articles, and they all agree in gender and number with the nouns they modify. A1 - Beginning French • agreement • articles • nouns
Au restaurant
