French Grammar

In English, adjectives are pretty easy to use. You put them before the noun they describe and you’re done.

In French however, the placement of adjectives varies. And if that wasn’t enough to confuse you, adjectives also change depending on whether the noun they describe is masculine, feminine, singular or plurial.

Luckily, in today’s lesson, you’ll discover several rules that’ll make it easier for you to know how to place and use French adjectives.

You’ll also discover how to use the most common French adjectives. [Read more…] about The Beginner’s Guide to French Adjectives

Turning a positive French sentence into a negative one is pretty straightforward. In most cases, all you need to do is add “ne” before the verb and “pas” after it.

As often though, this doesn’t work in 100% of cases. Today, you’ll discover how to create a negative French sentence, be it in the present tense, near future, future or imperative.

You’ll also learn how to say “never” or “nobody”. [Read more…] about Writing Negative Sentences in French Is as Easy As “Ne” + “Pas”

Feminine or masculine, that is the question you often ask yourself as a French learner. After hours trying to figure out why “cheveux” (hair) is masculine and “chaise” (chair) feminine, you came to the inevitable conclusion: the gender of French nouns was randomly chosen by a bunch of sadistic  linguists.

You may have heard that there is only one way to know the gender of a noun, to learn it by heart.

Luckily this is one of many myths about the French language, and you can actually know the gender of a French noun with more than 80% accuracy just by looking at its ending.

[Read more…] about How to Easily Guess the Gender of French Nouns with 80% Accuracy

Unlike English, French has two verbs meaning “to know”: “savoir” and “connaître”. Connaissez-vous la différence entre les deux ? Do you know the difference between the two?

It’s actually easier than it seems, as you’ll discover in this lesson. [Read more…] about To Know in French: Savoir or Connaître?

Should you use “bon” or “bien”? That’s a simple question, with a complicated answer.

Most of the time “bien” means “well” while “bon” means “good”. But there are so many exceptions one can hardly consider that a rule.

To make it easier to understand, here are 11 common situations where you should either use “bien” or “bon”.
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Knowing how to ask questions in French is crucial and relatively easy in most cases. Today you’ll discover how to ask questions in every situation. [Read more…] about How to Easily Ask Questions in French And Sound Natural

There is a right and a wrong way to say “you” in French. Or rather, there are different ways to say it depending on who you are talking to.

Use the right form and people will be happy to talk to you and amazed by your knowledge of the language ; use the wrong form and the only thing they will remember is how rude you are.

Here is how to make sure you don’t use the wrong form.

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