French · For teachers
Every French printable, chapter by chapter
The whole French curriculum in one place, mapped to its 34 chapters and 717 lessons. Each lesson lists its downloads inline - worksheets with answer keys, infographics and PDFs - and each chapter's words fold out into their own per-word printable sets, so you can open and print any sheet for a class without hunting through the site.
Chapter 1 · Introduction to French
Chapter page →- Introduction to FrenchIntroduction
Read this first. The orientation: how French works, what it costs in hours, what the apps get wrong, and how to use this curriculum.
- First words for sentencesVocabulary
10 words · A pronoun, a few verbs, the things they act on. Enough to build a real French sentence by the end.
- Word order in FrenchGrammar
Subject, verb, object - and the moments French bends the English order.
- More people, more wordsVocabulary
7 words · Subject pronouns for everyone else, plus the rest of the vocabulary you need for your first story.
- Your first story in FrenchGraded-reader story
Every word in this story comes from the lessons you've just finished. No lookups required.
- French articlesVocabulary
6 words · The definite, indefinite, and partitive articles in one place: le / la / un / des / du / de. The next lesson covers when to use which, including the partitive that English doesn't have.
Definite vs indefinite vs partitive - including du / de la / des, the article English speakers consistently drop and shouldn't. Plus the elision rules (l'eau, d'un) that make the difference between French that sounds native and French that sounds wrong.
- The sounds of FrenchPronunciation
The r, the u, and the nasals - the four sounds that make French sound French, with the mouth shown from the inside.
A dozen fixed everyday phrases - bonjour, merci, je m'appelle - so you can greet a real French speaker before you have learned any grammar.
- Arcade reviewReview games
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Word printables
Per-word sheets23 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
Chapter 2 · tu or vous?
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- Words 11-20Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 11-20
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 21-30Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 21-30
- tu or vous?Mistake clinic
Not a grammar question. Getting it wrong is a social mistake, not a linguistic one.
- Words 31-40Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 31-40
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 41-50Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 41-50
- Noun gender: le or laGrammar
Why every noun is le or la, and the endings that give it away.
- Words 51-60Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 51-60
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 61-70Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 61-70
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 71-80Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 71-80
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 81-90Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 81-90
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 91-100Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 91-100
Add -s, say nothing - le/les and un/des carry the plural in speech.
- Story milestone: top 100 wordsGraded-reader story
You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-100 ceiling.
- The words you already knowGrammar
English took a third of its vocabulary from French. Six ending swaps hand most of it back.
- The pronoun house: who does whatVocabulary
9 words · All nine subject pronouns in one place - je to elles. Frequency scatters them; this house keeps the whole set together.
Matching this and that to gender, number and the vowel rule - the agreement drill, hands-on, before the forms fossilise wrong.
Learn the everyday French your textbook skips - mec, meuf, ouf, relou - and crack the verlan code behind it.
Forty members - 'les immortels' - have guarded French since 1635, and they publish the official dictionary. Look up a word you already know.
The worldwide network of French classes and culture, in over 130 countries - there is almost certainly one near you. Go and see.
- The KiloKombat dojoLesson
Learn 10 new words faster than a rival. Spar the training partner to earn your grams, then challenge a real person - winner takes a tooth.
- Arcade reviewReview games
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
Word printables
Per-word sheets78 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
Chapter 3 · -er verbs
Chapter page →- -er verbsVocabulary
10 words · Memorise these 10 verb infinitives. The next lesson covers how to conjugate them.
- Conjugating -er verbsGrammar
Present-tense conjugation for the verbs you just learned, with a worksheet to drill the endings.
- -ir verbsVocabulary
10 words · Memorise these 10 verb infinitives. The next lesson covers how to conjugate them.
- Conjugating -ir verbsGrammar
Present-tense conjugation for the verbs you just learned, with a worksheet to drill the endings.
- -re verbsVocabulary
10 words · Memorise these 10 verb infinitives. The next lesson covers how to conjugate them.
- Conjugating -re verbsGrammar
Present-tense conjugation for the verbs you just learned, with a worksheet to drill the endings.
- bon or bien?Mistake clinic
One describes a thing. The other describes how it goes.
- Arcade reviewReview games
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Word printables
Per-word sheets18 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
Chapter 4 · Demonstratives: ce, cet, cette, ces
Chapter page →- Words 101-111Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 101-111
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- Words 112-123Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 112-123
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
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- Words 124-134Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 124-134
This / that / these / those in French. The four forms, the cet-before-vowel rule, and the -ci / -la distinction for near vs far.
- Words 135-146Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 135-146
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 147-157Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 147-157
- savoir or connaître?Mistake clinic
Both are
to know. French has no article on this, so this is where the course draws the line. - Possessive adjectivesGrammar
mon, ma, mes, ton, ta, tes, son, sa, ses, notre, nos, votre, vos, leur, leurs - and the mon-before-feminine-vowel rule English speakers miss.
- Words 159-169Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 159-169
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 171-181Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 171-181
How French wraps negation around the verb, the four core negative pairs, and the colloquial ne-drop you'll hear in spoken French.
- Merci, pardon, s'il vous plaitPhrase session
The six that cost nothing and buy more goodwill than any amount of grammar.
- Words 182-192Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 182-192
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 194-200Vocabulary
6 words · ranks 194-200
- Story milestone: top 200 wordsGraded-reader story
You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-200 ceiling.
The interrogatives as a set - who, what, where, when, why and how much, and the drill that fixes which one asks what.
- Arcade reviewReview games
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Word printables
Per-word sheets86 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
Chapter 5 · Adjective agreement
Chapter page →- Words 201-210Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 201-210
- Crossword review sessionReview games
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- Words 211-220Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 211-220
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 221-231Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 221-231
- Adjective agreementGrammar
Adjectives agree with the noun for gender and number. The feminine endings (-e default, -se, -lle, -nne, -ve, -ere), the plural rules, and the BAGS-set adjectives that go before the noun.
- voir or regarder?Mistake clinic
Seeing happens to you. Looking is something you do.
- Words 232-243Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 232-243
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 244-253Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 244-253
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 254-264Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 254-264
du, de la, de l', des as partitives - and the rule that turns every partitive into 'de' after a negative verb or a quantity expression.
- Words 265-275Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 265-275
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 276-285Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 276-285
a, de, en, dans, sur, sous, chez - plus the mandatory contractions au, aux, du, des and the a / en split for countries and cities.
- Words 286-296Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 286-296
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 297-300Vocabulary
4 words · ranks 297-300
- Story milestone: top 300 wordsGraded-reader story
You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-300 ceiling.
- La familleThemed review
Everyone you have met so far, gathered in one place. The first theme the course can build - by the end of chapter 5 the family is complete.
Post a hello to the French community, in French.
- Arcade reviewReview games
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
Word printables
Per-word sheets93 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
Chapter 6 · Direct and indirect object pronouns
Chapter page →- Words 301-310Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 301-310
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 311-320Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 311-320
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
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- Words 321-330Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 321-330
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 331-340Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 331-340
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
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- Words 341-350Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 341-350
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 351-360Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 351-360
me, te, le, la, lui, nous, vous, leur - the words that replace 'him', 'her', 'it' and 'to him/her'. Preverbal position, the m'/t'/l' elision, and the order when two pronouns stack.
- Words 361-370Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 361-370
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 371-380Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 371-380
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 381-390Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 381-390
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 391-400Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 391-400
Play it, read along word by word, then answer the questions. Every word is at your level - the song page teaches the few that are new.
- Story milestone: top 400 wordsGraded-reader story
You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-400 ceiling.
- Le temps qui passeThemed review
Days, hours and the words for when. You have been using these since chapter 2 without ever seeing them laid out together.
Join a French community and introduce yourself in a general channel - a great way to practise SPEAKING without leaving the house.
- an or année?Mistake clinic
French has two words for year, two for day, two for morning and two for evening. One rule covers all four pairs.
- Arcade reviewReview games
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
Word printables
Per-word sheets100 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
Chapter 7 · Reflexive verbs
Chapter page →- Words 401-410Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 401-410
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 412-421Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 412-421
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 422-431Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 422-431
- Reflexive verbsGrammar
Verbs where the subject acts on itself: se laver, se lever, s'appeler, se coucher. The me / te / se pronouns, present-tense use, and a flag that compound tenses need etre.
- Words 432-441Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 432-441
- entendre or écouter?Mistake clinic
The same distinction as voir and regarder, moved to the ears.
- Words 442-451Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 442-451
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 452-461Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 452-461
- ComparativesGrammar
plus / moins / aussi + adjective + que. The three irregulars meilleur (better), pire (worse), and mieux (the adverb).
- Words 462-471Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 462-471
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 472-481Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 472-481
- Question wordsGrammar
qui, que, quoi, quand, ou, comment, combien, pourquoi - plus the three ways French builds a question: intonation, est-ce que, and inversion.
- Words 482-491Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 482-491
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 492-500Vocabulary
9 words · ranks 492-500
- Story milestone: top 500 wordsGraded-reader story
You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-500 ceiling.
- Parler et ecouterThemed review
Asking, answering and being understood.
demanderis to ask FOR something - asking a question isposer une question, which is the trap here. - Arcade reviewReview games
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
Word printables
Per-word sheets99 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
Chapter 8 · The passe compose with avoir
Chapter page →- Words 501-510Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 501-510
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- Words 511-520Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 511-520
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
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- Words 521-530Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 521-530
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 531-540Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 531-540
- The passe compose with avoirGrammar
avoir + past participle. The default compound past, the regular participles -e / -i / -u, the three you must memorise (ete, eu, fait), and a flag that a small closed set of verbs takes etre instead.
- dire or parler?Mistake clinic
One takes what was said. The other takes who you said it to.
- Words 541-550Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 541-550
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 551-561Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 551-561
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 562-571Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 562-571
Most verbs take avoir. A closed set of seventeen movement and change-of-state verbs takes etre, and so does every reflexive verb without exception. With etre the past participle agrees with the subject, and six verbs take both auxiliaries with a change of meaning.
- Words 572-581Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 572-581
- When you have not understoodPhrase session
What rescues a conversation you have lost. Learn these before you need them.
- Words 582-591Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 582-591
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 592-600Vocabulary
9 words · ranks 592-600
- Story milestone: top 600 wordsGraded-reader story
You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-600 ceiling.
- À tableThemed review
Bread, water and wine - the oldest words in the language and the first ones you learned. Note
carte: the card and the map you already know is also the menu. - Email us in FrenchLesson
Tell us how your French is going - what you like and what you'd change - written only in French.
- Arcade reviewReview games
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Word printables
Per-word sheets99 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
Chapter 9 · The imparfait
Chapter page →- Words 601-610Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 601-610
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- Words 611-620Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 611-620
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 621-630Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 621-630
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 631-640Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 631-640
- The imparfaitGrammar
Stem from the nous form, endings -ais / -ais / -ait / -ions / -iez / -aient. Only one irregular stem (etre -> et-). For habitual, ongoing, and background past.
- apporter or amener?Mistake clinic
One is for things. The other is for people.
- Words 641-650Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 641-650
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 651-660Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 651-660
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 661-670Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 661-670
Bounded specific event = passe compose. Habitual / ongoing / background = imparfait. The interruption pattern, the decision rules, and the verbs that shift meaning between the two.
- Words 671-680Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 671-680
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 682-691Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 682-691
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 692-700Vocabulary
9 words · ranks 692-700
- Song: AlouetteSong
Play it, read along word by word, then answer the questions. Every word is at your level - the song page teaches the few that are new.
- Story milestone: top 700 wordsGraded-reader story
You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-700 ceiling.
- Le corps et la santéThemed review
Head, hand and heart, and enough to tell a doctor what hurts. The rest of the body arrives later - this is what you have now.
- Arcade reviewReview games
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Word printables
Per-word sheets99 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
Chapter 10 · depuis or pendant?
Chapter page →- Words 701-710Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 701-710
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 711-721Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 711-721
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
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- Words 722-731Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 722-731
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 732-741Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 732-741
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 742-751Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 742-751
- depuis or pendant?Mistake clinic
The tense changes with the word, which is what makes this one hard.
- Words 752-761Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 752-761
- Talking about the futureGrammar
Two ways: aller + infinitive (futur proche) and the inflectional futur simple. Regular endings -ai / -as / -a / -ons / -ez / -ont, the irregular stems, and when each tense is the right call.
- Words 762-771Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 762-771
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 772-781Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 772-781
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
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- Words 782-791Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 782-791
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 792-800Vocabulary
9 words · ranks 792-800
- Story milestone: top 800 wordsGraded-reader story
You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-800 ceiling.
- En voyageThemed review
Getting there and back. Chapter 10 finally supplies
gauche, so this is the earliest the course can point you anywhere. Leave a comment in French on a video from a French creator.
- Arcade reviewReview games
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Word printables
Per-word sheets99 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
Chapter 11 · rentrer, retourner or revenir?
Chapter page →- Words 801-810Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 801-810
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
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- Words 811-820Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 811-820
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 821-830Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 821-830
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- Words 831-840Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 831-840
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
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- Words 841-850Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 841-850
- rentrer, retourner or revenir?Mistake clinic
Three ways to go back, and French picks by where you are going.
- Words 851-860Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 851-860
- The conditionnelGrammar
Future stem + imparfait endings. Same irregular stems as the future. Used for politeness (je voudrais, j'aimerais), hypothesis, and reported speech.
- Words 861-871Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 861-871
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 872-881Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 872-881
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 882-891Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 882-891
- Asking the wayPhrase session
Asking is the easy half. These are chosen so you can also follow the answer.
- Words 892-900Vocabulary
9 words · ranks 892-900
- Story milestone: top 900 wordsGraded-reader story
You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-900 ceiling.
- Les sentimentsThemed review
Happy, in love, afraid and calm. You could say all of these long before you could say sad -
tristeonly arrives in chapter 11. - Arcade reviewReview games
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Word printables
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Chapter 12 · Commands: the imperative
Chapter page →- Words 901-910Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 901-910
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- Words 911-920Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 911-920
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 921-930Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 921-930
- Commands: the imperativeGrammar
Three forms (tu, nous, vous), the -er drop-the-s on tu, three irregulars (avoir, etre, savoir), and the hyphen-attachment of pronouns: donne-moi, allons-y, prenez-en.
- Words 931-941Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 931-941
- attendre or espérer?Mistake clinic
Attendre is not
to attend, and it is notto hopeeither. - Words 942-951Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 942-951
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 952-961Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 952-961
How French says 'there is', 'one must', 'it's cold'. The constructions that take il as a dummy subject with no real referent.
- Words 962-971Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 962-971
- Conjugation Sprint review sessionReview games
Sixty seconds on the endings of the verbs this chapter has drilled so far.
- Words 972-982Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 972-982
qui = subject relative, que = object relative, dont covers de-relations, ou covers place and time. Plus ce qui / ce que for nominal relatives.
- Words 983-992Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 983-992
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 993-1000Vocabulary
8 words · ranks 993-1000
- Story milestone: top 1000 wordsGraded-reader story
You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-1000 ceiling.
- Le travail et les étudesThemed review
The office and the classroom.
boulotis what people actually say for work;travailis what they write. - Arcade reviewReview games
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
Word printables
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Chapter 13 · Superlatives: le plus, le moins
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The most and the least: le/la/les plus + adjective with the repeated article, de for 'in/of', and the irregulars le meilleur, le pire, le mieux.
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- Adverbs of manner in -mentGrammar
Building adverbs from the feminine adjective (lente -> lentement), the -amment / -emment pairs, and the suppletive irregulars bien, mal and vite.
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Buying, selling and what it costs. Small set, but it covers a market stall end to end.
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Chapter 14 · The pronouns y and en
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- The pronouns y and enGrammar
y replaces a + a thing or place (j'y vais, j'y pense); en replaces de + a thing, partitives and quantities (j'en veux, j'en ai trois). Position and the imperative attachment (vas-y, prends-en).
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One is thinking about. The other is thinking of, as in what do you reckon.
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The disjunctive pronouns after prepositions (avec moi), for emphasis (moi, je pense), after c'est, in comparisons, and with -meme.
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Chapter 15 · Venir de + infinitive: the recent past
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venir de + infinitive means 'to have just done' (je viens de manger). The present-tense form, the imperfect venais de for 'had just', and how it differs from the passe compose.
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depuis + the present for an action still going on, pendant for a bounded duration, il y a for 'ago', pour for a planned future stretch - and the depuis present-tense trap.
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Sun, wind and sea.
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Chapter 16 · Negation beyond pas: ne... que, ni... ni, aucun
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ne... que for 'only' (and why it isn't a true negative), ni... ni for 'neither... nor' with its dropped articles, aucun(e) always singular, nulle part, and where each piece lands in the passe compose.
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- Quel and lequelGrammar
quel as the interrogative adjective that agrees with its noun (Quelle heure ?), lequel as the pronoun that replaces quel + noun (Lequel ?), and the auquel / duquel contractions.
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Chapter 17 · Demonstrative pronouns: celui, celle, ceux
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celui / celle / ceux / celles for 'the one(s)', completed by -ci / -la, by de + noun (celui de Marc), or by a relative clause (celui qui parle), plus the neuter ceci / cela / ca.
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le mien / la mienne / les miens through le leur for 'mine, yours, theirs'. The pronoun agrees with the thing owned, the circumflex on le notre / le votre, and c'est a moi vs c'est le mien.
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Room by room.
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Chapter 18 · Adjective position and meaning shift
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Where an adjective sits changes its meaning: un ancien ami (a former friend) vs un meuble ancien (an antique), un grand homme (a great man) vs un homme grand (a tall man), ma propre voiture vs une voiture propre.
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- Comparison of adverbsGrammar
plus / moins / aussi + adverb + que with no agreement, the frozen-le superlative (le plus vite), and the irregulars bien -> mieux, mal -> plus mal / pis, beaucoup -> plus, peu -> moins.
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Chapter 19 · The present subjunctive: how to form it
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The mechanical rule: take the ils form of the present (ils parlent), drop the -ent, add -e, -es, -e, -ions, -iez, -ent. The nous / vous forms borrow the imperfect stem, plus the handful of irregulars you memorise - etre, avoir, aller, faire, pouvoir, savoir, vouloir, falloir.
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il faut que, vouloir que, il vaut mieux que and the rest of the necessity-and-will triggers, governed by the different-subject rule: je veux partir (same subject, infinitive) vs je veux que tu partes (different subjects, subjunctive).
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Playing, winning and losing.
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Chapter 20 · The subjunctive after doubt, emotion and opinion
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Emotion (etre content que, avoir peur que, regretter que) and doubt (douter que, il est possible que) take the subjunctive, and the negative-and-question flip turns penser que / croire que / etre sur que from indicative (je pense qu'il vient) to subjunctive (je ne pense pas qu'il vienne).
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Conjunctive phrases that always trigger the subjunctive: bien que and quoique (although), pour que and afin que (so that), avant que (before), jusqu'a ce que (until), a condition que and pourvu que (provided that), a moins que (unless), sans que (without), plus the same-subject shortcut pour que -> pour + infinitive.
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Getting dressed.
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Chapter 21 · The passive voice
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- The passive voiceGrammar
etre (in any tense) + past participle agreeing with the subject (la lettre a ete ecrite), the agent introduced by par, and the ways French prefers to avoid the passive: on (on m'a vole mon sac) and the pronominal passive (ca ne se dit pas).
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The -ant form (parlant, finissant, with irregulars etant, ayant, sachant) and the gerund en + participle for simultaneity (en mangeant), means (en travaillant) and condition, under the same-subject rule, plus why French has no -ing continuous tense.
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Chapter 22 · The pluperfect
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- The pluperfectGrammar
The 'had done' tense: imperfect of avoir / etre + past participle (j'avais mange, elle etait partie), with the same auxiliary and agreement rules as the passe compose, for an action finished before another past action (quand il est arrive, elle etait deja partie).
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The three si types: si + present -> present/future (si tu veux, je viens); si + imperfect -> conditional (si j'avais le temps, je viendrais); si + pluperfect -> past conditional (si j'avais su, je serais venu). Never a future or conditional directly after si.
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Chapter 23 · Avoiding the passive: on, se and se faire
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French usually dodges the passive rather than building it: on + active verb (on m'a vole mon sac), the pronominal se passive (ca ne se dit pas, le vin se boit frais), se faire + infinitive (il s'est fait voler), and the hard rule that an indirect object can never be passivised - on m'a dit, never je suis dit.
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The choice where the two moods compete: esperer takes the indicative but souhaiter the subjunctive, the certainty slide from il est probable que (indicative) down to il est possible que (subjunctive), il me semble vs il semble, and avant que (subjunctive) vs apres que (indicative).
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- Les saisons et la meteoThemed review
The last theme of the course. Chapter 15 gave you nature broadly; this is the weather on its own, with the seasons it arrives in.
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Chapter 24 · lequel, auquel, duquel
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- lequel, auquel, duquelGrammar
The lequel paradigm as a relative pronoun after prepositions: la table sur laquelle, les gens avec lesquels, the a- and de-contractions (auquel, auxquelles, duquel), qui as the alternative for people, and ou as the everyday replacement for dans lequel.
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- Dont in depthGrammar
Everything dont does: replacing de + noun (le livre dont je parle), possessive dont (l'homme dont la fille travaille ici), numbers and subsets (trois enfants, dont deux filles), ce dont, la facon dont, and the compound prepositions that force duquel instead.
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Chapter 25 · Sequencing past tenses
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- Sequencing past tensesGrammar
How the three past tenses interlock in real narration: the passe compose moves the story clock forward, the imparfait holds the scene still, and the plus-que-parfait reaches back to the past before the past - plus depuis + imparfait and venir de + imparfait for the background's own timing.
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When the subjects match, French demands the infinitive and forbids the subjunctive: je veux partir, never je veux que je parte; pour partir vs pour que tu partes; avant de partir vs avant qu'il parte; sans le savoir vs sans qu'il le sache.
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Chapter 26 · Faire causatif: having things done
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faire + infinitive for making someone act and having something done: je fais reparer la voiture, il me fait rire, the le/lui object split, the invariable fait (elle s'est fait couper les cheveux), and faire vs rendre.
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The perception and permission verbs that take a bare infinitive: je le vois venir, on entend chanter les oiseaux, laisse-moi partir - plus when the participle agrees (vue vs vu) and the laisser faire / laisser tomber idioms.
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Chapter 27 · Verbs with a, de, or nothing before an infinitive
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The three lists every learner memorises: bare infinitive (vouloir, pouvoir, aller), a + infinitive (commencer a, apprendre a, reussir a), de + infinitive (decider de, essayer de, oublier de) - and the verbs whose meaning changes with the preposition.
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content de, fier de, pret a, le droit de, la peur de - and the flip English speakers miss: c'est facile a faire but il est facile de le faire.
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Chapter 28 · The conditional perfect
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- The conditional perfectGrammar
j'aurais fait, elle serait venue: the unrealised past (j'aurais aime venir), si + pluperfect conditions, journalistic distance (l'accident aurait fait trois victimes), and politeness in the past.
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The commonest use of the conditional perfect: devoir and pouvoir for should have and could have (j'aurais du partir, tu aurais pu me le dire), il aurait fallu, j'aurais mieux fait de - and how the person alone turns regret into reproach.
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Chapter 29 · Reported speech and the backshift
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Direct speech quotes the words; indirect speech reports them through dire / expliquer / annoncer plus an obligatory que, and a past reporting verb slides the tense back one step: je suis fatigue becomes il a dit qu'il etait fatigue, je viendrai becomes il a dit qu'il viendrait.
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The other half of indirect speech: il m'a demande si je venais, elle a demande ou j'habitais, qu'est-ce que becomes ce que - est-ce que and inversion both disappear - and an order becomes de + infinitive: il m'a dit de partir.
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Chapter 30 · The future perfect: futur anterieur
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Future of avoir or etre + past participle (j'aurai fini, elle sera partie) for what will already have happened by then - avant demain, j'aurai termine - and for a guess about the past: il aura oublie, he must have forgotten.
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After quand, lorsque, des que, aussitot que, une fois que and tant que, French demands a future where English says a present: quand tu arriveras, appelle-moi; des que tu auras fini, on partira. And the one exception that never bends: si + present, never future.
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Chapter 31 · The past subjunctive
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- The past subjunctiveGrammar
Subjunctive of avoir or etre + past participle (que j'aie fait, qu'elle soit venue): the same triggers as the present subjunctive, fired at events already complete - je suis content que tu sois venu - plus avant qu'il soit trop tard, and why French keeps only two subjunctive tenses alive.
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The one place the subjunctive is a choice that changes meaning: je cherche un guide qui connait la region (a specific one exists) vs qui connaisse la region (any one will do), il n'y a personne qui puisse m'aider, and the sought-but-unfound antecedent rule.
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Chapter 32 · The subjunctive after superlatives
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le meilleur film que j'aie jamais vu, la seule personne qui me comprenne: superlatives and the exclusives le seul, l'unique, le premier, le dernier pull the relative clause into the subjunctive, because the claim is an opinion - and a checkable fact takes the indicative back.
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- Concession: whatever happensGrammar
The whatever system, all subjunctive: qu'il vienne ou non, quoi que tu fasses, ou que tu ailles, qui que vous soyez, quel que soit le prix, si difficile que ce soit - plus the quoique vs quoi que distinction.
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Chapter 33 · Graded readers: the first 1000 words
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Dix histoires courtes a lire avec seulement les 1000 mots les plus courants. The reward for the core 1000: a small library of stories to read straight through.
- A Morning at the MarketGraded-reader story
Un matin au marché.
- The Phone CallGraded-reader story
Le coup de téléphone.
- The Surprise PartyGraded-reader story
La fête surprise.
- A Rainy AfternoonGraded-reader story
Un après-midi de pluie.
- Cooking TogetherGraded-reader story
Cuisiner ensemble.
- At the DoctorGraded-reader story
Chez le médecin.
- The First Day at WorkGraded-reader story
Le premier jour de travail.
- The New NeighbourGraded-reader story
Le nouveau voisin.
Chapter 34 · Le gros mot: strong language in French
Chapter page →- Le gros mot: strong language in FrenchIntroduction
The words French speakers actually use, and how hard each one lands. This chapter is here so you can understand what you hear, not so you can say it. French swearing is not a translation of English swearing: the strongest word in English is a mild filler in French, and the commonest French one is far ruder than its English gloss suggests.
- The mild endVocabulary
3 words · Barely swearing. You will hear these on daytime television and from people who would never use anything stronger.
- Everyday swearingVocabulary
3 words · Common in ordinary speech among friends. Note that
merdeis also what you say to wish someone luck, where it is warm rather than rude. - Words aimed at a personVocabulary
4 words · Insults rather than exclamations. The difference matters everywhere, and in French it matters more: swearing at a situation is close to punctuation, swearing at a person is not.
3 words · The most common swear word in the language and the verb that shadows it. Both are literal in origin and almost never literal in use, which is exactly why learners get their strength wrong.
- Con: the word that lost its meaningVocabulary
1 words · One word, on its own, because nothing else in French behaves like it. It is literally the strongest word English has, and generations of use as a synonym for
idiothave worn it down so far thatc'est consimply meansthat is a shame. Hearing that gap is the point of this chapter. - Pas devant les clientsGraded-reader story
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