French Lessons

The Imparfait is a French past tense. It is used to talk about things that are ongoing, or continuous in the past. It can be a little tricky as it can be a little blurry when to use and when to use the other main past tense, the passé compose. The imparfait is used to […]

What Is The Passé Composé In French? The Passé Composé is a French pass tense and it is probably the most important past tense. When we compare it to English, it can be a bit confusing, as this one tense can be translated into 3 different tenses in English. If I say “j’ai dansé” This

The passé récent is the recent past tense, it is used to talk about something that has happened only moments before. If you remember the Futur proche, where we say we are “going to” do something shortly. The passé recent is the opposite of this. It is when something has “just” happened and is now

The ‘Futur Simple’ is a French future tense used to describe an action that will happen at some point. We use this tense when we want to talk about our future intensions “I will…”  Or predictions “he will…”  Or in sentences where there is an “if” condition – “if this happens, I will…” The Future

Being able to say “I need…” is an important part of being able to communicate in any language including French. Saying “I need to” In English In English there is only one word… which is of course “Need” This one word can be used to cover kinds of need. The context of the rest of

Being able to ask a question is going to be pretty important if you want to communicate in French. Luckily forming questions is not too difficult and there is a number of different ways that you can do this. The Word “Ask” In French The first thing to know is that the French do not

What Is A Reflective Verb? A reflective verbs show us that someone is doing an action on to themselves, it reflects back on to them. These are usually verbs around self care that point towards you body and clothing and generally anything you do upon yourself like this.  When you see a verb that is

Demonstrative Adjectives are used to identify a specific noun or nouns. They sound complicated, but they are a simple little part of grammar that can really help us expand how we talk about things. Demonstrative Adjectives In English A demonstrative adjectives allow us to indentify (or determine) a noun and also tell if it is

Adverbs are similar to adjectives, but they add description and detail to verbs. Adverbs In English Adverbs are mainly used in English to give us more information about a verb. If you think about the verb dance, and if you say “I dance” it doesn’t really tell us much compared to “I dance badly” or

Possessive adjectives are used to show who the owner of something is, or who it may be associated with.  I can talk about my car or your dad. Obviously you do not own your dad in the same way I may own a car, but you get the idea. Since we all have dads (or