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Contents 1 Translation and Meaning 2 Level 3 gender 4 hello 5 Verbs used as adjectives or nouns 6 Passé composé - Reflexive Verbs vs. Verbs with Preceding Object Pronouns 7 Passé composé - Irregular verbs or intransite verbs 8 Use of Fingers

[edit] Translation and Meaning

I need to know what the SLANG word in English for the French term feutre means.

Un Feutre= a felt-tipped pen, ie. a texta colour

As far as I know there is no slang word for felt-tipped pen. You just have to say felt-tipped pen. 71.106.251.220 (talk)

[edit] Level

How do I know what level I'm on? Is there any sort of placement test?

You can easily find placement tests online and at various Colleges' and Universities' Websites online. Otherwise, the general rule of thumb is one year in a language course is one level.

--Fruitblender 23:06, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

exercise on le futur anterior

Here is a list of exercises by topic.

--Fruitblender 23:06, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

In French How do I Make a sentence Imperative?

The imperative is used in tu, nous and vous forms; the nous and vous forms are the same as the indicative in both regular and irregular verbs (except the 3 irregulars shown below). The tu form is also the same unless it comes from an infinitive that ends in -er, in which case the tu form would drop the 's' (eg: parles becomes parle).

The infinitive can also be used as the imperative, but only for impersonal commands, eg: mettre la ceinture.

--Fruitblender 23:06, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] gender

what we call turkey or turque as feminine or masculine

[edit] hello

explain passe compose tense

In English, verbs conjugated in the passé composé literally mean have/has ____ed. While there is a simple past tense in French, it is only used in formal writing, so verbs conjugated in the passé composé can also be used to mean the English simple tense.

For example, the passé composé form of parler (to speak), [avoir] parlé, literally mean has/have spoken, but also means spoke. In French, the passé composé covers "I ate", "I did eat" and "I have eaten" - J'ai mangé.

Usage

You use the passé composé when you want to express that:

• Something has been completed in the past.
• Something was done a certain amount of times in the past. (if the something was ongoing, the imparfait should be used)
• A series of somethings was completed in the past.

If you want to know how to form it, you'll have to look it up. There are a lot of rules, and they are easily listed elsewhere (like in the Wikibook).

--Fruitblender 22:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Verbs used as adjectives or nouns

How do you tanslate English "verbals" into French? I am confused about both:

• Verbs used as adjectives (in English they would be called "participles")
  • ex: I see the singing girl.
• Verbs used as nouns (in English they would be called "gerunds")
  • ex: Singing is fun.

Thanks for your help, FerralMoonrender (talk) 20:47, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi.

• Verbs used as adjectives are generally translated to qui + verb (conjugated). In your example, a French would say "Je vois la fille qui chante".
• Verbs used as nouns would be translated to the infinitive form of the verb. In your example, we would say "Chanter est amusant".

I hope I answered your question. --AurélieM (talk) 00:36, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Merci beaucoup! FerralMoonrender (talk) 06:53, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Passé composé - Reflexive Verbs vs. Verbs with Preceding Object Pronouns

Is the auxillary verb "être" used both with reflexive and preceding object pronouns?

  Je me SUIS parlé. 
  Il m'EST parlé. (--> Should it be "Il m'A parlé", since, in this case, it's not a reflexive pronoun?)

[edit] Passé composé - Irregular verbs or intransite verbs

Is the auxillary verb "être" used, in the special cases, with irregular or intransite verbs?

[edit] Use of Fingers

I need to know what is different about the use of the fingers in France compared to the use of fingers in America. I already know about using the thumb to begin counting, but what makes that so much better than starting with the index finger? This is for a 6th graders report in French, please! Any assistance would be appreciated, links, etc.

what is the translation of good morning im zirenithee basa presenting the country of france in french language?