French

Grammar

Grammar Terms

Un adjectif possessif: This means to state ownership. Example: "mine" ("mon/ma/mes"), "his" ("son/sa/ses") or "theirs" ("leur/leurs").

Le présent de l'indicatif: This is a fancy term for the present tense. Example: "mange", "va".

Le passé composé: This is the regular past tense. You will need to include the avoir/être and the participle passé. Example: "Je suis allé."

Le plus-que-parfait: This is asking for the être/avoir in imparfait form and the past participle. Example: "Il avait donné."

L'imparfait: This is a form of past tense. The endings are the same as the conditionnel - "ais, ais, ait, ions, iez, aient." Example: "cherchait." / "J'étais"

Un adjective démonstratif: The demonstrative means "this" or "these." These are "ce/cet/cette/ces/."

Le subjonctif: These follow certain terms with "que." Example: "devienne", "eut", and "nouât."

Un adverbe: Adverbs end with "ment." Example: "seulement" and "brutalement."

Une préposition: Common prepositions include "avec", "sans", "pour", "après", "à". Example: from the 2011 paper are "dans" or "à" or "de."

Le participe présent: These end with "ant." Example: "laissant", "regardant."

Un verbe pronominal: This is a reflexive verb and will have "se" or "s" before the verb. Example: "s'enfuir."

---

Grammar

L'impératif: This is an order- "fais tes devoirs!" (Do your homework!). Example: "faites."

Un adjectif: An adjective is a describing word.

• Masculine singular adjectives won't have anything added to the end of them. ("Petit").
• Masculine plural adjectives will have "s" added to the end of them. ("Petits").
• Feminine singular adjectives will have "e" added to the end of them. ("Petite"). Example: "propre."
• Feminine plural adjectives will have "es" added to the end of them. ("Petites"). An Example: "bonnes" or "noires."

L'infinitif: The whole verb. Example: "aller", "finir", "manger."

Le futur simple: This will end with "ai", "as", "a", "ons", "ez", "ent." These endings will be placed at the end of the full verb. Example: "coutera", "quittera", or "nécessitera".

Un participe passé: The past participle of the verb. Example: "renversées" and "brisées."

Le conditionnel: The conditionnel is what you "would" do. These usually include the full verb and the endings are "ais, ais, ait, ions, iez, aient." However, there are some irregular stems - for example "ferait" (from the verb "faire"). Example: "dirait."

Le gerondif: This uses en + the present participle to show two actions that are happening at the same time. In english we might write "while". Example: "En mangeant" is "while eating"