French grammar is complex and requires a lot of repetition and language input. Here is an exclusive grammar Crash Course with everything you need to know.
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Where to start?
Basic French Grammar Structure
The Subject Group
As the King of the French sentence, the noun decides every other part of the subject (as well as the verb). Find here everything you need about pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and how they interact with each other. Number, singular, plural, gender, masculine, feminine, and all of that jazz.
Pronouns
Nouns
Adjectives
Accords
The Verbal Group
French verbs are a lot! There is a total of 16 tenses in French, making it one of the toughest grammars to learn. This part combines everything you need to know about French verbs and includes REAL LIFE sentences that natives would say. None of that Duolingo The dog eats an orange stuff.
Verbs
The 50 Essential Verbs
Tenses
- Présent simple – Present (verbes réguliers, irreguliers et verbes réfléchis)
- Les Temps du Passé – Past tenses – passé composé et imparfait
- Les Temps du Futur – Future tenses – futur simple et futur proche
- Subjonctif – Subjonctive
Adverbs
Adverbs are key to make yourself understood, even when your conjugations are not quite right. They describe locations, periods of time, make comparisons, and highlight how any action is done. Without them, a sentence would be meaningless.
Adverbs of time
Adverbs of frequency
Adverbs of location
Adverbs with -ment
Prepositions
Those little annoying words that follow a verb or precede a noun and can change the whole meaning of a sentence. De, à, pour, par, avec, chez, …