French Vocabulary Magazine
Notes on register, verlan, memory, listening, and the words that change meaning with context - from formal vs informal French to spaced repetition and Shadowing.
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- Vocabulary
Ensemble in French: Meaning and Usage
Learn ensemble in context with natural French examples, English glosses, common mistakes, usage nuance, and practical review.
- Vocabulary
Entrer in French: Entrer dans and the Missing Preposition
Entrer needs dans before a place in French, unlike English enter. Learn the preposition, the être auxiliary, and rentrer versus entrer.
- Conjugation
-ER Verbs in French: The Pattern and Four Spelling Quirks
The regular -er present-tense pattern, with four spelling changes illustrated by manger, commencer, acheter and appeler, plus the exception aller.
- Vocabulary
Esprit in French: Meaning and Usage
Learn esprit in context with natural French examples, English glosses, common mistakes, usage nuance, and practical review.
- Expressions
Essayer: A French False-Friend Trap
Learn essaie / essaye with a clear guide, natural French examples and English glosses, common mistakes, nuanced usage, and practical review.
- Expressions
Est-ce que in French: Meaning and Usage
Est-ce que forms neutral French yes/no and information questions. Learn word order, qu’est-ce que, register, negation, and natural alternatives.
- Vocabulary
État in French: Meaning and Usage
Learn état in context with natural French examples, English glosses, common mistakes, usage nuance, and practical review.
- Vocabulary
Été in French: Summer, or Been?
Distinguish French été as summer from été as the past participle of être, with seasonal phrases, passive grammar, and agreement guidance.
- Conjugation
Être Conjugation: Every Tense You Need
Être conjugated across présent, passé composé, imparfait and futur - plus why être forms the passé composé for movement verbs and requires agreement.
- Vocabulary
Face in French: Meaning and Usage
Master French face, visage, devant, en face de, and faire face à by separating human description, surfaces, position, and confrontation.
Short notes on French vocabulary with nuance.
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