Table of Contents:

• Appareils de la Technologie

• Vocabulary - Sentence starters

• Adjectives - Ways to describe gadgets

• Rules of Gendering Adjective Endings

• Comparatives

• Reflexive Verbs

Appareils de la Technologie

Technology Devices

Vocabulary - Sentence starters

• Je me sers de mon/ma… - I make use of my…

  • Used in more personal contexts

• J’utilise mon/ma - I use my

  • More straightforward way of saying I use

Uses of Technology

Adjectives - Ways to describe gadgets

Adjectifs - Formes de décrire les gadgets

Rules of Gendering Adjective Endings

• Masculine: no change

• Feminine: add -e

• Plural (masculine): add -s

• Plural (feminine): add -es

About adjective endings…

In french, verb endings change whether the subject is masculine, feminine plural or both, for this reason it is important to know the laws that come with changing verbs.

• When the masculine already ends with e, there is no need to change the feminine verb

  • Example: Moderne (M) and Moderne (F) are the same

• When the masculine verb ends with eux, the verb ending for feminine is changed to -euse

  • Example: Ennuyeux (M) and Ennuyeuse

  • However, this verb ending doesn’t change when eux is masculine and plural
    - Example: Ennuyeux (M) and Ennuyeux (P) are the same

• If the verb is plural and masculine, an s is added

  • Example: Génial (M) and Génials

• If the verb is plural and feminine, the verb ending changes to es

  • Example: Géniale (F) and Géniales (PF)

Comparatives

• When talking about technology in french, you will often want to compare one gadget to another

• To compare two things in french use these terms..

  • Plus - More

  • Moins - Less

  • Aussi - As

  • Que - Than

Sentence builder to compare different gadgets.

• (gadget) + plus/moins/aussi + que (other gadget)

  • Example: Mon ordinateur est plus moderne que..

• When building these sentences, always give reasoning to your opinion

• Adding details refines your point, use words like:

  • souvent (often), toujours (always), and vite (quickly)

    • Negatives are encouraged too, such as on n’est pas besoin (there’s no need)

Reflexive verbs

• When building sentences, it is nice to add reflexive verbs to add proficiency

• Reflexive verbs describe actions that you or someone else does themselves, for example “I wash myself” (Je me lave)

  • remember when adding reflexive verbs, they need to agree in the perfect tense

    • Make sure that when speaking about a woman doing something herself, that you add -e as the verb ending

• In the context of technology, you can use reflexive verbs to show actions that you or others do themselves through the internet

  • Je me connecte tous les jours sur les réseaux sociaux

    • I connect myself everyday on social media

  • Nous nous enregistrons sur le site web pour accéder au contenu

    • We register ourselves on the website to access the content.

Reflexive Verbs per Subject

• Je me (I myself)

• Tu te (You yourself)

• Il/Elle se (He/She/It oneself)

• Nous nous (We ourselves)

• Vous vous (You/You all yourselves)

• Ils/Elles se (They themselves)