Get yourself familairized with " To Have in French / Avoir " 1. J'ai / I have 2. Tu as / You have 3. Il a / He has 4. Elle a / She has 5. Nous avons / We have 6. Vous avez / You have (plural or you don't know) 7. Ils ont / They have 8. Elles ont / They have (she) 9. T'as / You've (as it is commonly said) 10. On a / We have STRUCTURE: j'ai un stylo : I have a pen Elle a un livre: She has a book " Submit Your Own Self-Made Examples Below in the Comments"
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Get yourself acquainted with the use of Verb in French Language: For the purpose of this lesson we are going to explain a couple of présent de l'indicatif verbs. Put simply, the 'indicatif' relates to the mood of the verb and present to the tense. Don't worry if you don't know / understand exactly what that means I will cover that in later lessons. By present tense we are referring to something that is occurring now. For the purpose of demonstration we are going to be looking at the French Verb REGARDER - which means TO WATCH. Now some good news, the verb REGARDER (This is the Infinitive of the verb) belongs to a common group of verbs that all have the same conjugations. So that means knowledge gained learning REGARDER can be applied to all the verbs within that verb common group.
REGARDER is a member of the REGULAR -ER verbs group, this is because the Infinitive ends in ER. REGARDER is made up of the root 'REGARD' and the ending 'ER'. Look at the tables below on the left is the English / French ways to say 'TO WATCH' (in the present tense), on the right is a break down of how the endings differ. English French root ending I watch je regarde regard e you watch tu regardes regard es vous regardez regard ez he watches il regarde regard e she watches elle regarde we watch nous regardons regard ons they watch ils regardent regard ent elles regardent FIRST THING TO NOTICE: English French I je you tu he il she elle we nous you vous they ils they elles ..and missing from the example is 'on' which roughly translated means one or people. eg. On regarde - People watch. These are called PRONOUNS. The pronouns ils / elles refer to 'THEY' but elles is used when you are addressing or referring to just females, and ils when you are addressing or referring to just males or a mixed group.
Notice too that in French there are several ways to say YOU. The 'tu' form is used when you are familiar with the person you are talking to. To address someone who is older or whom you don't know you should use the 'vous' form instead. The trick to learning verbs is to learn the endings and apply them to the 'root' of the verb. Lets take another example 'PARLER' which means 'TO SPEAK' English French root ending I speak je parle parl e you speak tu parles parl es vous parlez parl ez he speaks il parle parl e she speaks elle parle we speak nous parlons parl ons they speak ils parlent parl ent elles parlent IT'S JUST THE SAME TECHNIQUE: Just use the same endings to the ROOT of the verb! This same technique can be applied to the present tense for any of the following Regular ER verbs. infinitive verb meaning aimer to like adorer to like / love habiter to live (in) détester to hate / dislike travailler to work You are requested to get more example from the above given lesson in French language.Thanks