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Superlatives Examples for Adjectives
Superlative Examples for Adjectives in French
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Avoir envie de / besoin de
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Avoir besoin means 'to need.'
Avoir envie means 'to feel like.'
They are followed by de and then an infinitive or another noun.
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General Order for Sentences with Negative Subjects
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These negative words can be the subject of the sentence.
Personne and rien are directly followed by ne, then the rest of the sentence.
Aucun/aucune is followed by a noun, then ne, the... -
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Ne... aucun
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Ne... aucun/aucune means 'not one' or 'no...'
It is an adjective that must be followed by a singular noun.
Aucun appears wherever a direct object would normally come in a sentence.
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Ne... rien
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Ne... rien means 'nothing.'
It comes after the first verb, or avoir or être in a composed tense like le passé composé.
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Ne... plus
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Ne... plus means 'no more' or 'no longer.'
Plus comes directly after the first verb, or avoir or être in a composed tense like le passé composé. -
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Ne... jamais
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Ne... jamais means 'never.'
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Comment ça va? --J'ai faim, soif, etc.
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Many expressions describing how you feel begin with j'ai, 'I have.' where in English it would be 'I am...'
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Le partitif: De + Adjective + Noun
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For nouns that have an adjective before them, simply de is used as the partitive without an article. -
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Quel temps fait-il?
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When talking about the weather you use the expression il fait... meaning'it makes,' the same way in English you would say 'it is...'
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Aller + Inf for the Future
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The formula subject + aller + infinitive refers to events or actions in the future.
This is the same as 'going to do' in English, both literally, and in use.
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Venir + De + Inf
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The formula subjet + venir + de + infinitive refers to an event in the recent past.
This is the same as saying 'just did.'
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Le + Day of the Week
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Saying a day of the week by itself refers to a single event happening on a specific day.
Saying le before a day of the week refers to an event that happens every week on that day of t... -
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Years and the Date
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For years, you simply say l'an followed by the number of the year.
To say a specific date, say le before the date of the month and the year.
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Numbers: 100, 1000 - Milliard
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'One hundred' and 'one thousand' are simply cent and mille. There no need to indicate 'one.'
Million and milliard both have un before them and are treated like nouns. To count somethi... -
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Numbers 10, 20 -100
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The numbers ending with one have the ten digit number followed by -et-un.
For numbers ending with other digits between 2 and 9 the single-digit number directly follows the ten digit n... -
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Aujourd'hui, hier...
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Midi, minuit
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Midi means 'noon.'
Minuit means 'midnight.'
In French AM and PM are not used. Instead, a 24-hour clock is used, or a 12-hour clock is used, and the time of day can be specified with d... -
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Telling Time
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You say the number of minutes directly after the hour.
Quart means a quarter hour and demi means a half hour.
After saying the hour you have to say et before quart or demi.
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'En' For 'il y en a'
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'En' for Numbers and Quantities
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En can be used to replace objects that are stated with specific numbers or quantities.
En is placed before the verb, while the quantity or number stays in its place.
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"En" for Partitive Statements
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En is a pronoun that can be used to replace phrases with de.
En goes before the verb just like direct and indirect object pronouns.
Je contracts with en to become j'en.
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Negative Imperative With Reflexive Verbs
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To use reflexive verbs in the negative imperative the reflexive pronoun comes after ne and before the verb, NOT after the verb as in the affirmative imperative.
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Negative Imperative with Pronouns
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If you want to use preverbal pronouns (direct and indirect object pronouns, en or y) with the negative imperative they come after ne and before the verb, NOT after the verb as in the i... -
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Negative Imperative
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For the imperative in the negative ne comes before the verb, and pas comes after.
One way to find the negative imperative is to take the negative statement in the affirmative, and remo... -
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Imperative With D.O. and I.O. Pronouns
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To replace an object with a pronoun in the imperative place the pronoun after the verb, not before it as in affirmative statements.
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Simple Examples For the Imperative
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The imperative is the tense for commands.
The imperative forms for toi and vous translate most directly to imperative commands in English.
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Pourquoi: 'Why'
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Pourquoi means 'why' in French.
It can be used with inversion or est-ce que to make questions.
Side Note: the verb manquer -- literally, 'to lack' -- is used to mean 'to miss.' The su... -
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Passé composé with Infinitives
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You can use infinitives with the le passé composé. Just as in the present tense, the infinitive is the second verb, and it is not conjugated for person or number. -
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Passé composé Negation: ne... pas, ne... rien
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Ne... pas is the most simple negation of a verb. Pas means 'not.'
Ne... rien means 'nothing.'
When you negate a verb with ne... pas or ne... rien the ne comes before the verb avoir.
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Passe composé with Indirect Object Pronouns
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Like direct object pronouns, indirect object pronouns come before avoir for le passé composé.
The pronouns me, and te contract before avoir into m' and t'.
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Examples of Être + P.P. and DR MRS VAN DER TRAMP
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For verbs that use être for le passé composé the p.p. functions like an adjective. It agrees in number and gender with the subject.
If the subject is feminine and the p.p. ends in a c...