Fancy French Words (Many Uses)

Question 1

Aussi

Answer 1

Practice:
Addition, comparison, something beyond compare, conjunctive verb (transition word), just as well.

https://www.fluentu.com/blog/french/french-synonyms-for-aussi/#:~:text=Aussi%20is%20often%20used%20to,into%20English%20as%20“also.”

Question 2

Faire

Answer 2

On its own faire can be translated as “to do,” “to make,” “to equal,” “to play,” “to cover,” “to turn into,” “to work as,” “to act,” “to measure,” “to cost,” and “to last,” depending on the context.

But primarily “to make” or “to do” like “hacer” in Spanish.

Conjugation: https://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-french-verb-faire.html

Question 3

Dont

Answer 3

In French, dont (meaning whose, of whom, of which, about which) is used to refer to people or things, but its form NEVER changes.
la femme dont la voiture est en panne the woman whose car has broken down
les films dont tu parles the films you’re talking about
deux livres, dont l’un est en anglais one of which is in English
Il y avait plusieurs personnes, dont Gabrielle. There were several people, among them Gabrielle.

Seen in the Book of Mormon: “le plaques dont Il aviar parlé”

Question 4

Où

Answer 4

Où means ‘where’. When used as a relative pronoun, où often means ‘where’ as well. Officially it replaces a ‘place’: dans le jardin (in the garden), à la piscine (at the swimming pool), chez moi (at mine), etc.

In the BoM: “car le temps où je les obtiendrais n’etait pas encore accompli”

Question 5

peu

Answer 5

A bit, a little
In Spanish: poco

Pronounced like “poo” 💩

Question 6

au

Answer 6

English to the/at the
Masculine à+le=au
Feminine à+la=à la
Vowel or -h à+l’=à l’
Plural à+les=aux
- Use au before a masculine word (eg le supermarché):
je vais au supermarché - I’m going to the supermarket
- Use à la before a feminine word (eg la maison):
elle est restée à la maison - she stayed at home
- Use à l’ before a singular word beginning with a vowel or silent -h, eg:
tu as parlé à l’ami de Julien ? - did you speak to Julien’s friend?
mon père travaille à l’Hôtel Bleu - my dad works at the Blue Hotel
- Use aux before a word in the plural form, eg:
vous allez aux États-Unis ? - are you going to the USA?

Question 7

When should I use au, à la, à l’ and aux?

Answer 7

First of all, it is important to understand the meaning we are trying to convey. Au, à la, à l’ and aux are all ways of saying ‘to the’ or ‘at the’. For example, in order to say ‘I work at the cinema’ in French, we would say ‘je travaille au cinéma’. We use the different variants au, à la, à l’ and aux depending on the gender and number of the noun which follows. For instance, we said ‘je travaille au cinéma’ because cinéma is a masculine noun. For a feminine noun, like ‘maison’, we would use ‘à la’ : ‘il est resté à la maison’. For a singular noun which begins with either a noun or ‘h’, we would use ‘à l’’. An example of this is the sentence ‘je vais parler à l’ami de Pierre’. Finally, for plural nouns we use ‘aux’ : ‘j’habite aux États-Unis.