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French grammar
Rules in plain words: tables, translated examples, common mistakes and a 10-question quiz on every topic. Start with articles — they’re in every sentence.
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Topics
Each topic is a page of its own, with an explanation, tables, examples and a quiz.
- Level A1–A2
Articles: le, un, du
Definite, indefinite and partitive articles — and when they all become de.
Je bois du café.
- Level A1
The présent tense
Je parle, nous finissons, vous faites — the endings of the three verb groups and the key irregulars.
Je parle français.
- Level A1
Possessive adjectives: mon, ma, mes
My, your, his: gender and number follow the thing owned, not the owner.
mon frère · ma sœur · mes amis
- Level A1–A2
Adjectives: gender, plural, position
petit → petite, beau → belle, un livre intéressant — agreement and position of adjectives.
une petite maison blanche
- Level A2
Comparisons: plus… que, le plus
Plus grand que, aussi bien que, meilleur, mieux, la plus belle ville — comparatives and superlatives.
Paris est plus grand que Lyon.
- Level A1–A2
Negation: ne… pas
Ne… pas, jamais, rien, personne — where they go and how people really say it.
Je ne parle pas anglais.
- Level A1–A2
Reflexive verbs: se lever
Je me lève, tu t’appelles, elle s’est levée — the pronouns me, te, se and the passé composé with être.
Je me lève à sept heures.
- Level A1–A2
Futur proche and futur simple
Two ways to talk about the future: je vais partir and je partirai.
Je vais partir. Je partirai demain.
- Level A2–B1
Passé composé or imparfait
Two past tenses: what happened — and what it was like, what was going on.
Il pleuvait quand je suis sorti.
- Level A2–B1
Object pronouns: le, lui, y, en
Je le vois, je lui parle, j’y vais, j’en veux — what each pronoun replaces and where it goes.
Je le connais. J’y vais.
- Level A2–B1
Relative pronouns: qui, que, où, dont
L’homme qui parle, le livre que je lis, la ville où j’habite, le film dont je parle — how to choose the pronoun.
Le livre que je lis est génial.
- Level B1
The plus-que-parfait: j’avais fait
Quand je suis arrivé, le film avait commencé — an action that happened before another past action.
Le film avait déjà commencé.
- Level A2–B1
The conditionnel: je voudrais
Je voudrais, pourriez-vous, si j’avais… je ferais — the conditional for politeness, advice and daydreams.
Je voudrais un café.
- Level B1
The gérondif: en parlant
En marchant, en regardant des films, tout en souriant — how to form the gérondif and what it expresses.
J’apprends en regardant des films.
- Level B1
The subjonctif: il faut que…
Il faut que tu viennes, je veux qu’il soit là — how to form the subjunctive and which words trigger it.
Il faut que tu viennes.
- Level B1
Reported speech: il dit que…
Il dit qu’il est fatigué, elle demande si tu viens, il m’a dit de partir — how to report what someone said.
Il m’a dit qu’il viendrait.
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Where should I start with French grammar?
With articles, the present tense (présent) and negation with ne… pas — you can’t make a sentence without them. Then the passé composé and the imparfait to talk about the past.
How long does it take to reach A2 grammar?
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