Module 5
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Un bébé
a baby
Un.e enfant
a child
la mère / la mère adoptive
The mother / the adoptive mother
Le père / le père adoptif
the farther / the adoptive father
le parent
the parent
le fils (le garçon )
the son (the boy)
La fille
The daughter / the girl
L’enfant
the child
les frères et soeurs
siblings
Le cousin / La cousine
the cousin
le frère
the brother
La soeur
the sister
les grands-parents (le grand-père / La grand-mère)
the grandparents
les petit-enfants (le petit-fils / le petite-fille)
the grandchildren
L’oncle
the uncle
la tante
the aunt
la nièce
the niece
le neveu
the nephew
La famille éloignée
Extended family
Le mari / L’époux
the husband
La femme / L’épouse
the wife
Le ou la partenaire
the partner
Un mariage / Un remariage (se marier / se remarier)
A marriage
A remarriage
To get married
To remarry
Un divorce / divorcer
a divorce
To divorce
Une séparation / Se séparer
A separation / to separate
Une famille recomposée
A blended family / step family
Une belle-mère
Step mother or mother in law
Un beau-père
a step father or father in law
Une demi soeur
half sister or step sister
Un demi frère
half brother or step brother
Une belle soeur
sister in law
Un beau frère
brother in law
Mairé.e
Married
Divorcé.e
divorced
Décédé.e
Deceased / passed away
Adopté.e
adopted
L’enfance
Childhood
Les traditions familiales
Family traditions
Les fêtes de famille
Family celebrations / family parties
Grandir
to grow up
La maison
the house / the home
Je travaille au bureau aujourd’hui et demain je vais travailler à la maison
I am working at the office today, and tomorrow i’ll work at the house (at home)
J’aime rester à la maison le week-end
I like to stay home on the weekends
Je rentre chez moi
I am going home
Le maison de mes amis
My friend’s house
Les pièces
The rooms
La chambre
The bedroom
La salle de séjour
the living room
Le salle à manger
the sining room
La cuisine
the kitchen
La salle de bains
the bathroom
les toilettes
the restroom
le garage
the garage
La buanderie
the laundry room
Le sous-sol
the basement
Ia jardin
the garden
le terrasse
the terrace
Le placard
the closet
Les étagères
the shelves
la baignoire
the bathtub
la douche
the shower
le lavabo
the sink (bathroom)
L’évier
The sink (kitchen)
La cuisinère
the stovetop
le four
the oven
le frigo
the fridge
La poubelle
the trashcan
le mur
the wall
la porte
the door l
les fenêtres
the windows
le couloir
the hallway
le toit
the roof
La moquette
the carpet
le plancher / le sol
the floor
Le parquet
wooden floor
The French imperfect tense (l’imparfait)
This acts to describe past actions, states, or events that do not have a hard begging or end
Habitual or related actions: Thing that you ‘used to” do or did regular (For example, every summer, we went to the beach) (I used to go to the gym every week)
Ongoing or continue actions; What has happening in the background when something else occurred (“I was reading when the phone rang”)
Description in the past: Setting the scene, such as weather, time, age, physical appearance, or emotion states (for example “it was cold” “she had blue eyes” “I was tired”)
How we conjugate the imparfait
Conjugated the regular verb in the impartial takes three simple steps:
Take the nous from the verb in the present tense (e.g. nous parsons, nous finissons, nous allons)
Drop the -ons ending to get your stem
Add the standard imparfait endings
Je _____-ais Nous _____-ions
Tu_____-ais. Vous______-iez
Il/Elle/ On _____-ait Ils/elles _____-aient
Special spelling and rules for the imparfait
Verbs ending in -ger: Like manger, keep an e after the g before endings that start with an a, or o to keep the soft g sound (Ex: je mangeais, nous mangions)
Verbs ending in -cer (like commencer); Change c to a cedilla ç before endings that start with an a to keep the soft “s” sound (Ex: je commençais, nous commencions)
The only irregular verb: être does not follow the nous stem rule. instead it uses the stem ét- with regular endings
J’étais, tu étais…..
The different imparfait endings
Regard
Lev
Sort
Vend
Buv
Pren
mett
dev
voul
all
av
fait
ét
Comparing nouns
When you compare tangible items, people, or quantities the French use a specific formula to express superiority (more), inferiority (less), or equality (as many / much as)
Superiority (plus de + noun + que)
Ex: J’ai plus de soeurs que mon maire
Inferiority (moins de + nouns + que)
Ex: Mon mari a moins de neveux que moi
Equality (autant de + noun + que)
Mon marie a autant de grands-parents que moi
Key rule to remember:
Notice that we always use the stressed pronoun moi at the end of a comparison rather than a subject (je), or we use les possessives.
Unlike regular articles (un, une, des) the de in comparative structures is fixed. It doesn’t become de la, or des
The only exceptions is if it changes to the d’ if the noun following it beings with a vowel or a silent h’ (plus d’amis)
Other French quantities that a fixed ‘de”
Beaucoup de (A lot of)
Un peu de (a little of)
Trop de (two much / too many)
Un kil de (A kilo)
Pas de (No / none of)
Balayer
to sweep
Débarrasser ou mettre la table
clear or set the table
Essuyer la poussière
to dust
Faire due bricolage ou bricoler
do / fix stuff around the house
Faire la lessive
to do the laundry
Faire le ménage
to clean / do housework
Laver
to wash
Passer l’aspirateur
to vacuum
Ranger
to put away / clean
Sortir la poubelle
to take the trash out
Tondre la pelouse
mow the lawn
Le lave-linge
a washing machine
le lave-vaisselle
a dish washer
le sèche-linge
a drayer
Un balai broom
a broom
L’aspirateur
a vacuum
How to compare adjectives
When do this, specially by comparing traits (for example ______ is taller than)
The structure for doing this:
Subject 1 + être (conjugated to match the subject) + (plus / moins / aussi ) + Adjective + que + subject
Plus…que (More than)
Mons…que (less than)
Aussi..que (as)
Par example:
Mon frère est plus sportif que mas soeur
Important rules:
The adjective must match in gender and number to the first subject, never the second
in English, we don’t say “gooder” we say “better” French as the same exact rule, so never say "plus bon” we always say “meilleur” (don’t forget to conjugate)