French
Expression
Explanation
Example in French
common nouns
naming words that identify
people, animals, places, things
and ideas and are either
masculine or feminine
le/un ballon, masculine (ball)
la/une voiture, feminine (car)
proper nouns
names of particular people,
places or things and usually begin
with capital letters
there are some exceptions, e.g.
the days of the week have lowe
case letters
doing words that tell us about
actions being done by the subject
of the sentence
Matthieu
L’Espagne
Le Louvre
transitive verb
carry an action from an subject to
an object (transfer an action)
lancer (to throw sth.)
adverbs
tell us more about verbs, e.g.
how, how much, how often,
when, comment/opinion
regular adverbs end in –ment,
irregular adverbs do not end in
-ment
words that describe nouns; they
usually come after the noun they
describe, some come before the
noun and all must agree with the
noun´s gender and number
lentement (slowly)
hier (yesterday)
malheureusement
(unfortunately)
words that link nouns to other
parts of sentences, indicating
relationships between things
They usually come before the
nouns and most often tell us
about the position, location,
direction or time
words that are used in place of
nouns to prevent writing from
sounding repetitive
sur (on)
verbs
adjectives
prepositions
pronouns
conjunctions
joining words that are used to
join together words, phrases or
clauses
entrer (to enter)
marcher (to walk)
la pomme verte (the green
apple)
l’ancien professeur (the
former teacher)
je (I)
tu (you)
il/elle (he/she)
nous (we)
vous (you/you polite)
ills/elles (they)
Et (and)
parce que (because)