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Unit 2Le Jour et La Date
Le Jour et La Date
Likes and Dislikes• Likes – “aimer”
• Asking about likes
• Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire?
• Est-ce que tu aimes…?
• Expressing likes
• J’aime…
• Use with infinitives
• Danser
• Écrire
• Travailler
• Nager
• Dislikes – “ne…pas”
• Sandwich the verb “aimer”
• Translates as “not”
• Add “du tout” to make it stronger
• “ne” changes to “n’” before a vowel
Je n’aime pas travailler.
J’aime danser.
Articles• Definite articles
• Refer to specific objects
• Translate as “the” in English
• Indefinite articles
• Refer to objects in general
• Translate as “a,” or “an” in English
• Articles in French must agree in gender and
number with the nouns they modify
• Definite and indefinite articles can be used
interchangeably
• Examples:
• le/un monsieur – the man/a man
• la/une dame – the woman/a woman
• l’/un enfant – the child/a child
• les/des amis – the friends/some friends
Definite Articles
le masculine singular
la feminine singular
l’ elision of le or la; occurs before a
noun that begins with a vowel;
singular
les plural; both masculine and
feminine
Indefinite Articles
un masculine singular
une feminine singular
des plural; both masculine and
feminine
Subject Pronouns
1st Person
2nd Person
3rd Person
Singular Plural
Includes the self
Speaks directly to
someone
Looks in from
the outside
English
I
you
he, she, it
nous
we
they
you
je
tu
il, elle, on
vous
French
ils, elles
• Pronouns are words that take the
place of nouns.
• Like nouns, pronouns can be
subjects or objects.
• Subjects perform the action of a
sentence.
• Objects receive the action of a
sentence
While it may seem logical, you shouldn’t translate the
French pronoun “on” as “it.” In English, the pronoun “it” is
gender neutral and refers to objects. While also gender
neutral, the pronoun “on” refers to people. It is often used
to make general statements in the place of the English
pronoun “we.” For now, think of it as “someone,” so you
remember that it is singular.
Pronunciation• Final consonants – in general, final consonants are silent
Ex. les messieurs
les dames
• Liaison – a link of sounds between a word ending in a
consonant and another word beginning with a vowel
Ex. les amis
les enfants
• Elision – the omission of a vowel at the end of a word before
another word beginning with a vowel sound
Ex. je n’aime pas…
j’habite…
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