Laura K. Lawless's Blog: Lawless Languages, page 388
May 9, 2015
Past Subjunctive
The past subjunctive is the past tense of the subjunctive mood. The exact same verbs, expressions, and conjunctions that call for the subjunctive in the present require the past subjunctive in reference to subjectivity about something that happened in the past.
May 8, 2015
À poil
You don't have to be in your birthday suit to learn about the familiar French expression à poil.
May 7, 2015
La morte amoureuse
J'ai été pendant plus de trois ans le jouet d'une illusion singulière et diabolique. Moi, pauvre prêtre de campagne, j'ai mené en rêve toutes les nuits (Dieu veuille que ce soit un rêve !) une vie de damné, une vie de mondain et de Sardanapale.
May 6, 2015
Indefinite Adjectives
Indefinite adjectives like certains, divers, and quelques describe nouns in a general or non-specific way. Many indefinite adjectives indicate a vague quantity.
May 5, 2015
EU
The letter combination eu has three possible pronunciations, two of which are very similar.
May 4, 2015
Nationalities
Every country and continent has an adjective that can be used to describe people and things from that place. Those same adjectives can also be used as nouns to refer to people from that place, with one small change in French.
May 3, 2015
Mai 68
Entre janvier et mai 1968, diverses perturbations initiées par le milieu étudiant ont conduit à ce qui allait devenir le mouvement de protestation le plus considérable que la France ait connu.
May 2, 2015
Faire – Causative Construction
The causative is a grammatical construction with a lazy subject who, rather than performing some action himself, is making someone or something else do it: to make something happen, to have something done.
May 1, 2015
Quelle mouche t’a piqué ?
Something bothering you? Read this lesson on the idiomatic French expression Quelle mouche t'a piqué ? to figure it out.
Bonne fête du Premier mai !
In France, May 1st is la Fête du Travail as well as la Fête du Muguet. What's the connection between these two seemingly unrelated holidays?
