French, explained in English
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Lesson 01
Subject pronouns
Choose the subject pronoun for a clearly identified person or group.
Read and practise Lesson 02Être: saying who or where someone is
Use the present form of être with each subject.
Read and practise Lesson 03Avoir: having things and saying your age
Use avoir for possession and age.
Read and practise Lesson 04Definite and indefinite articles
Choose an article using the noun’s gender, number and reference.
Read and practise Lesson 05Regular -er verbs in the present
Conjugate regular -er verbs in the present.
Read and practise Lesson 06Negation with ne… pas
Place both parts of full written negation around the verb.
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Sounds and letters · 10 topics
- The French alphabetAvailable in the app
- The sounds of u and ouAvailable in the app
- Closed é and open èAvailable in the app
- Nasal vowelsAvailable in the app
- Reading ch, gn and phAvailable in the app
- Reading c and gAvailable in the app
- Final consonantsAvailable in the app
- Reading vowel groupsAvailable in the app
- Linking words: liaisonAvailable in the app
- The tréma: separating vowelsAvailable in the app
First sentences · 3 topics
- Subject pronounsFree preview
- Être: saying who or where someone isFree preview
- Avoir: having things and saying your ageFree preview
Nouns and agreement · 6 topics
- Definite and indefinite articlesFree preview
- Regular noun pluralsAvailable in the app
- Adjective agreementAvailable in the app
- À and de with definite articlesAvailable in the app
- Partitives and quantitiesAvailable in the app
- ComparisonsAvailable in the app
Verbs and tenses · 21 topics
- Regular -er verbs in the presentFree preview
- Regular -ir and -re patternsAvailable in the app
- Aller and faire in the presentAvailable in the app
- Reflexive verbs in the presentAvailable in the app
- The passé composé with avoirAvailable in the app
- The passé composé with êtreAvailable in the app
- Forming the imparfaitAvailable in the app
- The futur procheAvailable in the app
- The futur simpleAvailable in the app
- Commands: the present imperativeAvailable in the app
- Pouvoir, vouloir and devoirAvailable in the app
- Background and events in the pastAvailable in the app
- The plus-que-parfaitAvailable in the app
- The conditional and hypothetical si clausesAvailable in the app
- The present subjunctiveAvailable in the app
- The past subjunctiveAvailable in the app
- Unreal past conditionsAvailable in the app
- The futur antérieurAvailable in the app
- Past participle agreement and object rolesAvailable in the app
- Literary narrative past tensesAvailable in the app
- Literary subjunctive concordanceAvailable in the app
Sentences and questions · 8 topics
- Negation with ne… pasFree preview
- Questions with est-ce que and inversionAvailable in the app
- C’est, ce sont and il y aAvailable in the app
- Indirect questionsAvailable in the app
- Extended negationAvailable in the app
- The passive voiceAvailable in the app
- The gérondifAvailable in the app
- The past infinitiveAvailable in the app
Pronouns and reference · 10 topics
- Possessive determinersAvailable in the app
- Ce, cet, cette and cesAvailable in the app
- Direct-object pronounsAvailable in the app
- Indirect-object pronouns: lui and leurAvailable in the app
- Y and enAvailable in the app
- Relative pronouns: qui, que, où and dontAvailable in the app
- Demonstrative and possessive pronounsAvailable in the app
- The order of object pronounsAvailable in the app
- Object pronouns in commandsAvailable in the app
- Relative pronouns after prepositionsAvailable in the app
Advanced sentence structure · 7 topics
- Reporting speech from a past viewpointAvailable in the app
- Emphasizing part of a sentenceAvailable in the app
- Mood in subordinate clausesAvailable in the app
- Expletive ne, negation and restrictionAvailable in the app
- Inversion in formal FrenchAvailable in the app
- Detached participial clausesAvailable in the app
- Indefinite concession: quel que and quoi queAvailable in the app
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