FREN 106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: French Verbs, Vowel, Voir
7 Jul 2018
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Etre (to be) and avoir (to have) are essential french verbs. Used on their own, they are full verbs follows: follow: Avoir generally expresses possession and age (hungry and thirsty). In this way, they allow another verb to be conjugated in a compound tense. Note: the majority of verbs are conjugated with auxiliary avoir. Possessive adjectives modify the object owned and not the owner. These are the three types of possessive adjectives in french: It agrees in gender and number and is written quel, quelle, quells or quelles according to the noun or noun phrase which it qualifies. Quelles personnes sont avec toi? (cid:283)combien de(cid:284) (how much, how many) may be considered as an invariable interrogative determiner. Note that even when the interrogative adjective quel is used as a pronoun, it agrees with the noun or noun phrase. Combien de (how much, how many) may be considered as an invariable interrogative determiner.
