What's your bête noire of French grammar?

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Permalink Reply by Frank on September 20, 2009 at 6:20pm

Hi Cesare,

The former is neutral, you can use it in any situation. The later is formal. But both can be said to anyone regardless of age.

In fact, I don't think there's any street lingo way to say "thank you". We just say "merci" :)

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Permalink Reply by Deay on September 21, 2009 at 1:20am

Hello,
Avec beaucoup d'autres problèmes dans la grammaire .Ma bête noire de la français jusqu'ici, c'est prnounes interrogative.
Dommage, comme c'est dommage !
Espérons que tout se passera bien

Good luck!

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Permalink Reply by Jessica on September 30, 2009 at 1:15pm

Indirect and direct object pronouns! COD and COI to me are hard to grasp in plain terms. I can use them when I am answering questions that directly ask for the COD and COI, but when it comes to actually writing sentences, I find it hard to know what to do/ how to use them.

Also, differences between words like parce que and a cause de. I know they exist and I know they mean because in some form, but how does one know when to use either. I use them interchangably, but I know that it isn't right.

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Permalink Reply by Frank on October 1, 2009 at 6:57am

Hi Jessica,

"parce que" is "because", while "à cause de" is essentially "because of".

Je ne peux pas sortir à cause de la pluie. (because of the rain)
Je ne peux pas sortir parce qu'il pleut. (because it's raining)

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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on October 5, 2009 at 9:55am

Re the pronouns: have you had a look at the section on French pronouns already in the grammar section. It would be interesting to know if there are parts of this that you don't think are clear so that they can be improved.

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Permalink Reply by Angelique on October 14, 2009 at 5:09am

Problems include: Sentence Order, {especially with using Pronouns}Subjunctive mood,The use of popular prepositions and conjunctions etc. I'll ask around..Bonne idée!!

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Permalink Reply by ava marie Ramos on October 30, 2009 at 9:43pm

hello have a nice day . i would like to know some simple french words

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Permalink Reply by Frank on November 1, 2009 at 4:29am

Hi and welcome to the forum.

http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/ is a good starting point, especially its Basic French section that should help you to get started with learning French.

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Permalink Reply by Pamela Kingfisher on November 6, 2009 at 9:24am

I want some ideas on using indefinate and definate demonstrative pronouns, celui, ceux, celle, and celles. I am trying to use these correctly in my term papers.
It is confusing when trying to use these in a sentence, especially when they are in the interior of a sentence and ci or là is not being attached to the pronoun to distinguish between "latter" and "former"
Pam

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