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he is think of him
il pense à lui
he is referring to Marie
Il fait allusion à Marie
she will have to deal with henry
elle aura affaire à henry
I’m sticking to them
J’y tiens
there’s one
en voilà un
there goes
c’en fait
that irritates and bores me
ça m’agace et m’ennuie
they alone could…
eux seuls pourraient
he too will have problems
lui aussi aura des problèmes
-sion/on
fem
-eur
fem
-ai
masc
-é
masc
clé
fem
-i
masc
shortcut
un raccourci
-ou
masc
un clou
a nail
un caillou
a pebble
-ème
usually masc
rabies
la rage
the backside
LE derrière
platinum
LE platine
wind screen
un pare-brise
a rebel
le rebelle
an oak
un chêne
a beach tree
un hêtre
a gorilla
un gorille
a wallet
un portefeuille
a skeleton
un squelette
a murmur
un murmure
un somme
nap
un moule
a mould
stove
un poêle
tower
la tour
a space in printing
une espace
help yourself
servez vous
in the evenings
le soir
they didn’t take anything from me
on ne m’a rien pris
Il n’a confiance en aucun autre que lui-même
He doesn’t trust anyone else but himself
I wrote a letter to neither him or his mother
je n’ai écrit de lettre ni à lui ni à sa mère
which are the negation constructions where when used with an infinitive they don’t precede but go either side of the infinitive?
ne personne
ne aucun
order of double negatives
jamais, plus, rien, pp, personne, que
don’t do that
ne fais pas ça
apart from the use of relative qui, how else can qui be used?
as a participle construction eg je l’ai vu qui sortait
you know who
qui vous savez
on whom were counting
sur qui on comptait
the reason why
la raison pour laquelle
family tree
arbre généalogique
verb +de what it the relative pronoun used?
dont eg. le sport dont il est parfaitemnt capable
dont can also be a complement of
another noun phrase
dont can also be translated as
including or of which
including
notamment/ y compris
I congratulate you on what you have done
je vous félicite de ce que vous avez réalisé
de ce que is used when
the clause usually connected by ce dont is reversed
which type of verbs can’t be made to agree when they are a preceding direct object pronoun?
measure verbs like ‘live’ or ‘walk’ or ‘way’
passive followed by de when
it references a state
passive followed by par when it indicates
an actions
until/ as we wait for
en attendant que + subj
with preceding direct object pronouns the verb
always agree with the pronouns information eg Je l’ai vue
when does a compound with a double pronoun not agree
when the two infinitives are not separated
