Category: French

Le superlatif expresses the highest degree of a quality. We construct the superlative by using le/la/les plus + adjective or le/la/les moins + adjective. The adjective’s ending agrees with the noun it…

French and English enjoy common ways of expressing degrees of comparison namely, equality or inequality. Inequality can reflect less than, while superiority can reflect more than.  However,…

A relative pronoun is a word that is used to link the second half a sentence to a previously mentioned person or thing. The man who works…

Generally speaking, the imperfect describes past situations, while the passé composé narrates specific events. In addition, the imperfect can set the stage for an event expressed with…

The French imperfect (imparfait) is a descriptive past tense that indicates an ongoing state of being or a repeated or incomplete action. The beginning and end of…

Savoir and Connaître Savoir and connaître both mean “to know.” But they mean “to know” in very different ways: savoir relates more to things and connaître relates more to people, although there…

In le passé composé tense, pronominal verbs are always conjugated with the auxiliary verb être, which you have already learned. The reflexive pronoun is placed before the auxiliary verb.…

French pronominal verbs are accompanied by the reflexive pronoun se or s’ preceding the infinitive, thus, the grammatical term “pronominal,” which means “relating to a pronoun.” All conjugated verbs, with…

The French recent past is a verb construction that’s used to express something that just happened. It is called the passé récent. Like the futur proche, or near future,…

The French verb venir literally means “to come” and is also used in many idiomatic expressions. It’s an essential verb for beginners to learn and is used in a…