Basic French Grammar Topics
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Course Content
French Greetings3 Topics -
Subject Pronouns3 Topics
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The Verb "to be"4 Topics
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The Verb "to have"3 Topics
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Negative Sentences3 Topics
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The Definite Article3 Topics
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The Indefinite Article3 Topics
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Zero Article3 Topics
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Partitive Articles3 Topics
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Adjectives4 Topics
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The Order of Adjectives3 Topics
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-ER Verbs (present)3 Topics
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Possessive Adjectives3 Topics
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Interrogatives4 Topics
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-IR Verbs (present tense)3 Topics
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-RE Verbs (present tense)3 Topics
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Possession3 Topics
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The Verb "to make" "to do"3 Topics
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Weather Expressions4 Topics
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Numbers 1-1004 Topics
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The Date3 Topics
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Telling Time3 Topics
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The Expression "there is" "there are"3 Topics
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The Verb "to go"2 Topics
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The Near Future3 Topics
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The Expression "it is necessary"3 Topics
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Demonstrative Adjectives3 Topics
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Possessive Pronouns3 Topics
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The Verb "to put"3 Topics
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To learn how to say the date in French, you must learn the days of the week and months of the year.
Les Jours de la Semaine – The Days of the Week
lundi – Monday
mardi – Tuesday
mercredi – Wednesday
jeudi – Thursday
vendredi – Friday
samedi – Saturday
dimanche – Sunday
Les Mois de l’Année – The Months of the Year
janvier – January
février – February
mars – March
avril – April
mai – May
juin – June
juillet – July
août – August
septembre – September
octobre – October
novembre – November
décembre – December
*Notice how neither the days of the week nor months of the year are capitalized in French. These are only capitalized if they are found at the beginning of a sentence.*
La Date – The Date
The following questions can be used to ask what date/day it is:
Quelle est la date ? → “C’est le…”
Nous sommes le combien ? → “Nous sommes…”
Quel jour sommes-nous ? → “Nous sommes…”
First, take a look at how writing the date in French compares to English.
English: Today, it’s Sunday, July 4th, 2021 or 7/7/2021
French: Aujourd’hui, c’est dimanche le 4 juillet 2021 or 4/7/2021
The formula for writing the date in French is:
(day of the week) + le + (cardinal number date) + (month) + (year)
or day/mother/year
*One exception to this formula is on the first of the month. To express the first day, one should say “le premier” or “1er”for the (cardinal number date) part of the formula.