Indefinite articles in French

Bonjour! In this lesson we will study about indefinite articles in French. As we know an indefinite article indicates that its noun is not a particular one (or ones) identifiable to the listener. It may be something that the speaker is mentioning for the first time, or its precise identity may be irrelevant or hypothetical, or the speaker may be making a general statement about any such thing.

In French indefinite articles correspond to "a," "an," or "one" in English, while the plural corresponds to "some." There are three forms of the French indefinite article.

un masculine

une feminine

des masculine or feminine plural

Exemple:

Un crayon, here I have written un crayon because pencil is masculine in French.

Une gomme, here I have written une gomme because eraser is feminine in French.

Des crayons, here I have written des crayons because pencils are plural.

Hope now the concept of indefinite articles is clear to all of you :).. Keep practicing and don't forget to complete or finish worksheet.

Clothes in french

In this lesson we will learn some new words related to the clothes.Remember we have to not only learn new word along with that we have to also learn gender of that particular word. So learn these words so that next time you will visit in any french speaking country, you can easily do shopping of clothes :)

Worksheet on definite articles

Complétez avec les articles définis.

  (Complete with the definite articles.)

1. ........................................................................ forêt.

2. ....................................................................... salon.

3........................................................................’école.

4. ................................................................. patinoire.

5.................................................................... banques.

6. .............................................................’appartement.

7. ......................................................................... stylo.

8. .................................................................... voitures.

9. .......................................................................... gare.

10. ........................................................................ chat.

Definite articles in French

Bonjour! In this lesson we will study about definite articles in French. So what exactly definite article is?

A definite article indicates that its noun is a particular one (or ones) identifiable to the listener. It may be something that the speaker has already mentioned, or it may be something uniquely specified. The definite article in English, for both singular and plural nouns, is the.

Example:

Give me the book.

The students are intelligent.

Similarly in French  the is definite article but it has different forms according to the subject.

1. Le is used before a masculine singular noun beginning with a consonant.

2. La is used before a feminine singular noun beginning with a consonant.

3. L' is used before a singular noun beginning with a vowel and a silent “h”.

4. Les is used before all plural nouns.

Exemple: 

Le livre ( The book). Here I have written le livre because book is masculine singular noun.

La table ( The table). Here I have written la table because table is  singular noun feminine singular noun.

L'homme ( The men). Here I have written l'homme because man is beginning with  a silent “h”.

Les filles ( The girls). Here I have written les filles because girls plural nouns.

Hope now the concept of definite articles is clear to all of you :)

Months in French

As we all know their are 12 months in a years. In this post we will learn how to write these months in french.
In french months or month is written as mois where as year as année.

                               Les mois                       Months

                                        Janvier                                   January

                                        Février                                   February

                                        Mars                                      March

                                        Avril                                      April

                                        Mai                                        May

                                        Juin                                        June

                                        Juillet                                     July

                                        Août                                      August

                                        Septembre                             September

                                       Octobre                                 October

                                       Novembre                             November

                                       Décembre                              December

Gender in French

In french it is very important to pay attention towards gender as we do in Hindi language. Like if I ask you what is the gender of truck or pen in Hindi? Your answer will be masculine. On the other hand if I ask you what is the gender of table? then your answer will be feminine. Here the point is each and every thing has it gender. In English we have three gender masculine, feminine and neuter gender but in French we have two gender i.e masculine and feminine.



English                                                                                            French


Masculine                                                                                       Masculin

Feminine                                                                                         Féminin




Example: In french book, pen are masculine whereas chair, chalk are feminine.

French alphabets & their pronunciation

Bonjour amis! Today we will start our first lesson . Alphabets are base of any language without knowing them we cannot learn any language. So in this post I will discuss about alphabets in french.

The French alphabets are same as the English alphabets but the pronunciation is different. The alphabets and their respective pronunciation follows: 

                                      

A	aa	N	n
B	bey	O	o
C	sey	P	pay
D	they	Q	cue
E	eu	R	air
F	ef	S	ess
G	zheh	T	tay
H	ash	U	iu
I	ee	V	vay
J	zee	W	dooble vay
K	ka	X	eeks
L	elle	Y	ee- grek
M	m	Z	zed

But in french their are six vowels (a, e, i, o, u and y)