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
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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; that is, they modify or describe nouns in a certain way, letting you know the size, shape, weight, color, nationality, or any of a myriad other possible qualities of nouns.A1 - Beginning French • adjectives • agreement • lesson plans
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Adverbs
An adverb is an invariable word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Adverbs can provide additional information about manner, quantity, frequency, time, or place - they explain when, how, where, how often, or to what degree something is done.A1 - Beginning French • adverbs
Airport
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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 used 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. If you're wondering how many letters there are, you're in luck: 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.