Lessons / Leçons
0 (zéro) Sounds and alphabet / des sons et un alphabet 1 (un) Greetings and courtesies / salutations et politesse 2 (deux) Introduction / présentation 3 (trois) être et avoir / to be and to have 4 (quatre) Négation et question / negation and question 5 (cinq) Chiffres, nombres et ordinaux / Figures, numbers and ordinals 6 (six) Le corps / body 7 (sept) Description / description 8 (huit) Sentiments, qualités et météo / feelings, goodness and weather 9 (neuf) Mouvements et DIRECTIONS / motion and directions 10 (dix) Le temps - Time 11 (onze) Plus belle que toi - more beautiful than youLessons / Leçons: 6 (six)
Body / Le corps
Vocabulary / Vocabulaire
Text / Texte
Vocabulary / Vocabulaire
les cinq sens (the 5 senses)
Grammar / Grammaire
articles (principles)
pronoms possessifs (possessive pronouns)
Singulier / pluriel (Singular / plural)
Vocabulary / Vocabulaire
Le corps humain
L’œil
Also:
dos = back
fesses = buttocks, buttom
Text / Texte
J’ai mal aux pieds.
Tu as de grands yeux.
Je prends ta main.
Tu écoutes notre conversation ?
Elles écoutent de la musique.
Ouvre grand tes oreilles !
Fermes tes yeux.
Elles entoure ses jambes de ses bras et pose son menton sur ses genoux.
Vocabulary / Vocabulaire
voir = to see
regarder = to look, to watch
entendre = to hear
écouter = to listen
goûter = to taste
sentir = to feel / to smell
mon, ma, mes = my
prendre = to take
ouvrir = to open
fermer = to close
Les cinq sens (the 5 senses)
je vois et je regarde avec mes yeux (I see and look with my eyes)
j’entends et j’écoute avec mes oreilles (I hear and listen with mye ears)
je goûte avec ma bouche (I try (taste) my my mouth)
je sens et je touche avec mes mains (I feel and touch with my hands)
je sens avec mon nez (I smell with my nose)
Note that “sentir” has several meanings: to feel, by touching, and to smell.
Grammar / Grammaire
Articles (principles)
Principles are even more often used in French than in English, for instance in plural forms.
Masculin singulier |
Féminin singulier |
Pluriel |
|
Undéfini(= a) |
Un chapeau |
Une voiture |
Des chats |
Défini (= the) |
Le chapeau |
La voiture |
Les chats |
Note that before a vowel, the definite singular principle drops its ending vowel and takes an apostrophe: l’
l’arbre (masculine, = the tree), l’image (feminine, = the picture)
Pronoms possessifs (possessive pronouns)
Unlike English, the French possessive pronouns in French also agree with the object.
Anne prend son chapeau (Anne takes her hat): “chapeau” is masculine
Anne prend ses chats (anne takes her cats)
Anne prend sa voiture (anne takes her car): “voiture” is feminine
Nous parlons à notre mère (We speak to our mother)
Ils parlent à leur mere (they speak to their mother): there is one mother
Ils parlent à leurs mères (they speak to their mothers): there are several mothers
Masculin singulier |
Féminin singulier |
Pluriel |
|
= my |
Mon chapeau |
Ma voiture |
Mes chats |
= your (tu) |
Ton chapeau |
Ta voiture |
Tes chats |
= his / her |
Son chapeau |
Sa voiture |
Ses chats |
= our |
Notre chapeau |
Nos chats |
|
= your (vous) |
Votre chapeau |
Vos chats |
|
= their |
Leur chapeau |
Leurs chats |
Note that for phonetics, you will use “mon / ton / son” before a feminine noun starting with a vowel.
Singulier / pluriel (Singular / plural)
In French, number is for nouns and adjectives.
Adjectives change according to the number of the noun which they qualify.
Note that very often the plural is done by adding an –s to the singular form.
Le joli chat – les jolis chats
une jolie voiture – des jolies voitures
un bel œuf – des beaux œufs
Singular ending with –au or –al have a plural form in –aux.
un oiseau – des oiseaux
un chapeau – des chapeaux
un cheval – des chevaux
un journal – des journaux
However, there are a few exceptions
Festival, banal (common), bancal (unbalanced), fatal, final, glacial (freezing), natal (native), naval
Add an –s for plural : festivals, banals, bancals, fatals, finals, glacials, natals, navals
Nouns ending in –eu have a plural in –eux.
un lieu - des lieux
un vœu – des vœux
Also, some nouns in –ou have their plural in –oux.
chou – choux (cabbage)
bijou – bijoux (jewlery)
joujou – joujoux (toy)
genou – genoux (knee)
caillou – cailloux (stone)
hibou – hiboux (awl)
pou – poux
Viens mon chou, mon bijou, mon joujou, sur mes genoux, et jette des cailloux à ce hibou plein de poux !
jetter = to throw
Attention, some nouns have complete different plural
un œil, des yeux
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