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Prepositions

One of the eight Italian parts of speech, prepositions are short but essential words which are placed after a verb, noun, or adjective in order to indicate a relationship between that word and the noun or pronoun that follows.

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Gender Matters

While most French nouns are either masculine or feminine, some have different meanings depending on their gender. These "gender homonyms" are pronounced the same, so it's particularly important to pay attention to the article or other determiner that signals the gender and therefore meaning.

Published on Lawless French

         

Indirect Object Pronoun Verbs

There are about a dozen Spanish verbs which must be conjugated with an indirect object pronoun, such as gustar and importar. This grammatical construction does not exist in English, but it's not difficult once you get used to it.

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Impersonal Expressions

Impersonal expressions consist of an impersonal subject ("it" in English; il or ce in French) and the verb être followed by an adjective: c'est difficile, il est important, etc.

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Au pif

Don't use guesswork - read this lesson to learn how to use the French idiom au pif.

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Telling Time Quiz

Test yourself on telling time in French with this fill-in-the-blanks quiz:

   Une journée de conférence

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Día Mundial de la sonrisa

Test yourself on Spanish adjectives of quantity with this fill-in-the-blanks exercise:

   Día Mundial de la sonrisa

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Uscire – to go out, exit

Uscire - to go out, exit - is one of the most common Italian verbs and has irregular conjugations in some tenses and moods. Since it's a verb of movement, it needs essere as its helping verb.

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Crossword Puzzles

Have fun practicing your French vocabulary with PwLF crossword puzzles.

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Formal Negation

French has three negative constructions that are reserved for formal (usually written) French like literature and historical accounts.

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