How are you?
Adjectives
People
Meta-linguistic Terms
être
100

How are you going? How is it going?

(short version)

Ca va?

100

nice

sympa

100

young lady

mademoiselle

100

un and une both mean....

a

100

je....

tu...

suis

es

200

How are you? How is it going?

(longer version)

Comment ça va?

200

cute

mignon/mignonne

200

sir

monsieur

200

un, une and des are all examples of this sort of article

indefinite

200

il/elle/on/qui....

est

300

Not bad.

Pas mal. Comme ci, comme ça.

300

sad

triste

300

the classmate

le/la camarade de classe

300
What do we call a word that is spelled the same or similarly in both languages, and mean the same thing?

cognate

300

nous....

sommes

400

It's going really well, thanks.

Ca va très bien, merci.

400

new

nouveau/nouvelle

400

the French teacher

le/la prof de français

400

When do we use le, la and les to say "the"?

le=masculine singular

la=feminine singular

les=plural (masc + fem)

400

vous....

êtes

500

It's not going well at all.

Ca ne va pas./Ca va très mal.

500

nice/kind

gentil/gentille

500

the English teacher

le/la prof d'anglais

500

What is the form of the verb found in a dictionary?

infinitive

500

ils/elles

sont

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