French I Final Exam Study Guide

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Modal verbs express necessity and possibility

the following modal verbs could be used in french to show a call for action

On peut, We can On doit, We must On devrait, We should On pourrait, We could Je veux, I want Je peux, I can Je dois, I must

Les passetemps

• In French, when you use “faire de” it is to talk about an activity and when it is not a game that does not involve a ball or a team.

• $We use “jouer à” to talk about a game or a sport that involves a team and a bat, a stick, a club or a ball.$

  • For sports, swimming for example is used with the verb faire while football with jouer

• To know how to conjugate each verb with the subject in present, one has to know the irregular verb of faire, and the verb jouer in present tense

@@CONJUGATIONS OF PRESENT TENSE VERB: FAIRE @@

Je fais                       =   I do

Tu fais                       =   You do

Il/Elle/on fait             =   He/She does

Nous faisons             =   We do

Vous faites                =   You all do

Ils/Elles font              =    They do

==CONJUGATIONS OF PRESENT TENSE VERB: JOUER==

Je joue                      =  I play

Tu joues                    =  You play

Il/Elle/on joue            =  He/She play

Nous jouons              =  We play

Vous jouez                 =  You all play

Ils/Elles jouent            =  They play

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Je fais du vélo, I go cycling.

Je fais du shopping, I go shopping.

Je fais de la danse, I do dancing.

Je fais de la natation, I go swimming.

Je fais du ski, I go skiing.

Je fais du ski nautique, I go water skiing.

Je fais de l’équitation, I go horseback riding.

Je fais de la cuisine, I do cooking.

Je fais de la boxe, I do boxing.

Je fais du bricolage, I do DIY.

Je fais de la marche, I go walking.

Je fais du jardinage, I do gardening.

Je fais de la lecture, I do reading.

Je fais mes devoirs, I do my homework.

Ranger ma chambre, Clean up my room.

Nettoyer la maison, Clean the house.

Faire la grasse matinée, Sleep in.

Il sait jouer au tennis, He knows how to play tennis.

Nous allons jouer aux cartes, We are going to play cards.

Je vais de la flute, I play the flute.

Time Expressions Vocabulary

• Il y a une semaine, A week ago.
• La semaine dernière, Last week.
• Le matin, Morning.
• L’après-midi, Afternoon.
• Le soir, Evening.
• Hier, Yesterday.
• Hier soir, Last night.
• Dans le passé, In the past.
• Autrefois, Formerly.
• Avant, Before.
• Normalement, Normally.
• Quelquefois, Sometimes.
• Parfois, Occasionally.
• De temps en temps, From time to time.
• Tous les jours, Every day.
• Demain, Tomorrow.
• En avril, In April.
• Dans une semaine, In a week.
• A l’avenir, In the future.
• Dans le futur, In the future.
• Un jour, One day.
• Le weekend dernier, Last weekend.
• Vendredi dernier, Last Friday.
• Il y a un mois, A month ago.
• Il y a trois jours, Three days ago.
• L’an dernier/l’année dernière, Last year.

Grammar

Objective: learn the different French conjugations of different verb endings in the present tense

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• When is the present term used?

  • The present tense is used when referring to one-time actions that take place in the present, ialso future scheduled events

• The different regular verb endings in french are: + example

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<<Verbs ending in -RE are conjugated as follows<<

Passé Composé

• passé composé - a past verb composed of two parts (helping verb + main verb)
  • Used to tell what happened or what someone did
  • In english, you can say “I finished” or “I have finished
  • Meanwhile, in french most of the time you need to say the two parts of the verb
  • So “I have finished” becomes “J’ai fini”
• Auxillary verbs - Helping verbs such as avoir (to have) or etre (to be)
• Avoir - To have
  • Agrees with the subject, meaning it changes depending on the personal pronoun

Auxillary Verb: Avoir conjugations based on subject

Example:

• In french, you have 3 endings for verbs

  • being: er, ir, and re
  • example: parler, finir, and vendre

• To turn words into past, they usually follow a pattern depending on the verb ending.

  • For verbs ending in -er, to turn it into past tense, you have to remove the r
  • parler → parl_ → parlé
  • For verbs ending in -ir, to turn it to past tense you only drop the r
  • finir → fini
  • For verbs ending in -re, to turn into past tense you drop the re, and replace it with a u
  • vendre → vend__ → vendu

• Applying knowledge:

  • J’ai vendu
  • Tu as parle
  • Nous avons fini

• Some verbs don’t follow the rules discussed above, and will rather turn into different words when turned into past tense

  • These are called irregular verbs
  • Examples of irregular verbs include
  • Faire, avoir, dire, povouir, voir, pouvoir, etc
  • So instead of saying “I did” as “J’ai faiu” you say “J’ai fait”
  • Boire → bu
  • Prendre → pris
  • Lire → lu

• Another helping verb used is the verb etre (to be)

  • Only certain words use the verb etre
  • Verbs using etre for passe composee have to add with the subject if feminine, and/or an s if the verb has plural subjects
  • For example: Elle es allee

Conjugations of the verb etre depending on the subject: