FREA01H3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Reflexive Pronoun, French Verbs, Possessive Determiner
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Etre: to be, je suis, tu es, on est, nous sommes, vous etes, ils sont. Un groupe de mots: a clause. Le masculine: one usually learns gender by memorization. Some groups of words are grouped according to their endings. Tion te are almost always feminine: la nation, la liberte. Ment eau are almost always masculine: le department, le tableau. Three kinds of articles: definite articles (the) Les: indefinite articles (a / an / one /some) Used with certain verbs when one speaks about a part of something / a piece of something: Some + singular noun: e. g. je mange du pain, je bois de la lemonade. Articles agree (s"accordent) with the nouns they modify in gender and number: elision. The dropping of a letter occurs when le or la is followed by a word that begins with a vowel: l"etudiant, l"histoire, de l"eau, contraction.
