Unit 2 · 5 lessons
Décrire: Describing People, Places and Things
Learn to describe the world in French: make adjectives agree and put them in the right place, say whose things are whose, compare people and things, explain where objects are, and walk through your daily routine and the time of day.
- 55 practice questions
- 43 flashcards
- 1 interactive lesson
Lessons
- 1Adjective Agreement and PlacementFrench adjectives change their ending to match the noun they describe (masculine or feminine, singular or plural), and most of them come after the noun, except a small group of common ones remembered as BAGS.Interactive11 questions
- 2Possessive and Demonstrative AdjectivesHow to say my, your, his, her, our and their (mon, ma, mes and the rest), why they agree with the thing owned rather than the owner, and how to point things out with ce, cet, cette and ces.11 questions
- 3Comparing with Plus, Moins, Aussi and MeilleurHow to say more than, less than and as … as with plus, moins and aussi, how to say the most and the least, and why good and well become meilleur and mieux.11 questions
- 4Describing Where Things AreThe prepositions that place things in space (sur, sous, devant, derrière, à côté de, entre, en face de, près de, loin de and more), how de contracts with le and les, and how to use il y a to say what is in a room or a place.10 questions
- 5Daily Routine: Reflexive Verbs and Telling TimeReflexive verbs (se lever, s'habiller, se coucher) describe actions you do to yourself, and they carry an extra pronoun that matches the subject. Together with telling time on the 12-hour and 24-hour clocks, they let you describe your whole day.12 questions