FIA Grammar Chapter 11 Flashcards
What is a semivowel?
Semivowels are sounds that have characteristics of both vowels and consonants.
How do you indicate yesterday, today, and tomorrow when the point of reference is the present vs. when the point of reference is the past (such as in a story)?
present: hier, aujourd’hui, demain
past: la veille, un certain jour, le lendemain
What is another way of indicating elapsed time (like il y a/ca fait) and to indicate elapsed time from a specific point in time?
Robert’s been in Paris for 24 hours.
Robert’s been in Paris since yesterday.
- Robert est à Paris depuis 24 heures.*
- Robert est à Paris depuis hier.*
List the months.
janvier
fèvrier
mars
avril
mai
juin
juillet
août
septembre
octobre
novembre
décembre
How do you form exclamations, either positive or negative, with and without verbs?
Without:
What a beautiful sky!
What bad weather!
With:
The sky is blue!
The weather is bad!
Without: use Quel (or Quels, Quelle, Quelles)
- Quel beau ciel!*
- Quel sale temp!*
With: use que + verb
- Que le ciel est bleu!*
- Qu’il fait mauvais!*
To indicate the place towards which a person is going you use aller à. How do you indicate the place from which a person is coming?
Mireille is coming from the Institute.
- venir de +* noun (place of origin)
- Mireille vient de l’Institute.*
How do you express the immediate past (what just happened)?
He just arrived in Paris.
venir de + verb
Il vient d’arriver à Paris.
List the direct object pronouns.
She looks at me.
She looks at you.
She looks at him/it.
She looks at her/it.
She looks at us.
She looks at you/you all.
She looks at them.
- me*
- te*
- le/la*
- nous*
- vous*
- les*
- Elle me regarde.*
- Elle te regarde.*
- Elle le regarde. (masculin)*
- Elle la regarde. (feminin)*
- Elle les regarde.*
- Elle nous regarde.*
- Elle vous regarde.*
- Elle les regarde.*
Where do you place direct object pronouns in a sentence?
He looks at her.
He doesn’t look at her.
Directly in front of the verb, in both positive and negative expressions.
- Il la regarde.*
- Il ne la regarde.*
When are reflexive verbs used?
When the subject of an action and the object of an action are the same.
List the (direct object) reflexive pronouns. Then list regular direct object pronouns.
Reflexive:
- me*
- te*
- se*
- nous*
- vous*
- se*
Direct Object:
- me*
- te*
- le/la*
- nous*
- vous*
- les*
