Grammar Lessons

Lequel – Interrogative Pronoun

Lequel, "which one," is the pronominal equivalent of the interrogative adjective quel, meaning that quel + noun can be replaced by lequel. It has different forms depending on the gender and number of the noun it replaces.

  A2 - Low-Intermediate French • pronouns 

Expressions

Il était une fois

Once upon a time, I wrote a lesson on the French expression il était une fois.

Food and Drink

Au restaurant

Listen to a short, easy conversation between a waiter and two diners.

  A1 - Beginning French • travel French 

Grammar Lessons

Regular Feminine and Plural Nouns

Like English nouns, most French nouns have singular and plural forms. In addition, French nouns referring to people and animals often have different masculine and feminine forms, which means that these nouns can have up to four forms.

  A1 - Beginning French • gender • plurals 

Reading Practice

Grenoble

Grenoble, chef-lieu du département de l'Isère, dans la région Rhône-Alpes, est la 16e plus grande ville française. Entourée de montagnes, on l'appelle « la capitale des Alpes ».

  B1 - Intermediate French 

Current Events

Coup d’État

Click or tap to take over this lesson on the French expression coup d'État.

  French in English 

Circonvenir – to circumvent, get around, avoid

Simple and compound conjugations for the irregular French verb circonvenir.

  conjugation tables 

Contrevenir – to contrevene

Simple and compound conjugations for the irregular French verb contrevenir.

  conjugation tables 

Satisfaire – to satisfy, fulfill, appease, quench

Simple and compound conjugations for the irregular French verb satisfaire.

  conjugation tables 

Expressions

Quatre à quatre

Please don't run up the stairs while reading this lesson on the French expression quatre à quatre.

Vocabulary Lists

Personality

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but friendliness is in the heart and kindness is in the soul. Check out this French vocabulary to learn how to describe someone's personality.

  A1 - Beginning French 

Emmerder (inf) – to bother, bug; (fam) – to bore, to be in trouble; (slang) – to piss off

Simple and compound conjugations for the regular -er French verb emmerder.

  conjugation tables • informalities 

Food and Drink

Galette des rois

Listen and/or read to learn about the delicious galette des rois and its traditional early January celebration.

  B1 - Intermediate French 

Pronunciation Guides

EUIL and EUILL

The letter combinations euil and euill are pronounced like the oo in "foot" plus a "y" sound.

Être d’accord

Does être d'accord require the subjunctive?

  subjunctivisor