I've come across a French headline about the police in (cityname) no longer sanctions begging.
In english that could mean, that begging is no longer punished, or that begging is no longer accepted.
Is there the same confusion in French, or does it mean only one of the above.
French spelling is very conservative, we all know that. My question is: if heure is spelled with an H even though it isn't pronounced, why isn't avoir spelled havoir, if it comes from Latin habere? Then the present tense would have been j'hai, tu has, il/elle/on ha, nous havons, vous havez, ils/elles hont and the same thing would have been with the other forms of the verb. This way, à would have also been just a (like it is in Italian), without the need to add a diacritic to differentiate it when writing.
I am seeing a lot of different variations of this term online such as “carte mentale” and “carte heuristique” but which is more commonly used and what is the verb “to brainstorm”?
Is the verb ‘humilier’ used in France currently ? If not, what verb would be used commonly to deal with humiliation please ? Thanks.
I was talking about this yesterday with one of my friends who's also learning French. I told him that maybe it's the same case as "vosotros" in Spanish. In latin america we don't use "vosotros" in everyday conversations but if you ask someone to conjugate some verbs with "vosotros", they probably will answer correctly without major problems (even in past or future tenses that tend to be more difficult)
Does the same happen with French people?
Hi there :) I need some help for a translation. In French the verb "crever" (to die), has a special weight, it's quite animal, not very noble, and to me at least, is associated with some anguish, and is quite a brutal way of saying it. Is there an English equivalent?
*ends
For example, “He said he needed some time.”
“I knew you liked him.”
*sorry for the horrible wording, English isn’t my native language
I have been studying French for ten years now, but I have never understood how these verb tenses are used and teachers have never explained it.
Looking for an app (play store) that has verb conjugation and pronunciation.
And hopefully a nice interface! Any suggestions?
Hi everybody!
A couple of years ago, I made a post to announce the release of mlconjug, a Python package/library to conjugate verbs (even made-up verbs, or verbs coming from slang and not covered in traditional conjugation tables) in French, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian using Machine Learning techniques.
Since then, mlconjug has had a lot of success with thousands of students of foreign languages using it as a standalone application to improve their conjugation skills, but it has also been incorporated as a library dependency in more than a dozen different python software projects ranging from traditional NLP tasks using Machine Learning, to twitter bots, Voice Assistants, and even games.
It has also been used in several Academic publications, for example: "Generative Grading: Near Human-level Accuracy for Automated Feedback on Richly Structured Problems" where it is used for automatically grading students essays, and United States citizenship exam questions.
I released a new and improved version of the software, called mlconjug3 as it is only compatible with Python 3.x, and had many enhancements and bug fixes. The accuracy of the conjugations models has improved a lot and I am in the process of implementing regional European languages (in beta version for now), like Catalan, Valencian , Basque language, etc... as well as slavic languages (Czech and Polish for now).
Those new languages should be available in the beginning of summer and I am looking for native speakers of the languages that are in beta status to test the software and check that the conjugated forms are correct.
You can install mlconjug3 from PyPi or Anaconda.
Some of the features of mlconjug3 are the following:
- Easy to use API.
- Includes pre-trained language models with 99% + accuracy in predicting conjugation class of unknown verbs.
- Easily train new models or add new languages.
- Easily integrate MLConjug in your own projects.
- Can be used as a command line tool.
I invite everyone to try it out and if you are a native speaker of Catalan, Valencian , Basque, Czech or Polish and are willing to beta-test the software, please pm me, you are would be greatly appreciated, and it will make
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So I'm taking this French Course and one of my assignments requires me to use 6 pronomial verbs, but I am confused how to use them correctly.
These are the instructions:
Your grandmother is coming to visit this weekend. Tell me what everyone in your family has to do to make your home spotless.
Here's what I've written:
Ma grand-mère est en visite ce week-end. Je m’organise la cuisine et ma chambre. Ma mère se nettoie le salon et s'essuie les fenêtres. Je vais à la boulangerie pour chercher un dessert. Ma soeur se nettoie sa chambre. Aussi, elle se passe l'aspirateur dans le salon. Mon père se tond la pelouse.
I can't help but think I'm using them incorrectly, can someone please help me out? Thanks :)
Hello everyone!
A few months ago I shared my story on how I learned French in a year.
It was very interesting to see all of the different reactions, and to talk to all of you.
I also said that I wanted to help other people with learning French, so I created Language Atlas.
I am now happy to report that I have written 167 free lessons and quizzes for French A1 and French A2.
I have also created Anki files for them.
You can find the content for French A1 here, and the content for French A2 here.
Currently the entire French A1 is online, but only the verbs of French A2.
I will continue to write the lessons for A2, and for the other levels as well.
They will be released in the coming months.
If you are curious, then you can already see the (planned) content for B1, B2, and C1.
Reddit and this community has given me so much, so I really hope this will be useful for you!
If you have any questions or feedback then please let me know.
I will do my best to help you!
-Sam
Is this purely dependent on context?
Hello everyone,
I am in French 3 and I'm losing my mind when it comes to saying "to bother or annoy". I feel like there are fifty ways to use them. My question is are the following verbs interchangeable? What's most common? What situations do I use them? Thanks in advance!
Voila : déranger, gêner, énerver, agacer
Anyone who's used ConjuGato for learning Spanish knows how effective it is at cutting right into the core of learning rapid verb conjugations. The UI is so effective and the app is designed really well.
I've been a little dismayed at the Verb Conjugating App options in French so far - clunky, convoluted with useless info and testing list memorization instead of random recall
... Anyone got any reccomendations? God I loved Conjugato
I found this video extremely helpful since I often struggle with which tense to use. I thought I would link it here so I could help anyone who also struggles with tenses.
Here's my latest lesson on the irregular verbs "avoir" and "être," two of the most commonly used (and confused!) verbs. By the end of this video, you'll be able to understand their meanings, as well as how to conjugate them in the present tense--interactive activities included!!
Example: Eu tou bem = Yo toy bien
Kind of like the difference between "I am" and "I'm"
I honestly have no idea what’s happening with my gender identity rn but I’m sitting at non binary. But also closeted. afab.
So I’m French in certain conjugations you need to put an “e” at the end to show your a girl, but writing that makes me really uncomfortable and I got a mark off a test because I forgot it.
Does anyone else find it uncomfortable?
Also to the people more involved in the French language, is there a “they/them” equivalent but in French? Do you just use on?
