French Grammar

Adjective

Adjectives are used to describe or modify a noun or a subject, giving information and details about quality, characteristics, size, shape, etc. They agree in gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural) with the noun or subject to which they are associated.

Adverb

An adverb is a word or a group of words that can modify an adjective, a verb, another adverb or a sentence and provide details about them.

Adverb of Negation

Negative adverbs are words that are used to contradict, refuse, deny or simply to turn statements into negative ones and even to formulate questions.

Article

French articles are small words always placed before the noun. They give details about the noun, its gender, its number and whether it is specific or general.

Conjunction

French conjunctions are words that connect other words, sentences and clauses together. By linking all these elements, the conjunctions give a logical meaning to the sentence.

Interjection

Interjections are used to vividly express emotions, feelings or reactions.

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous refer to grammar concepts that do not fit into a specific category such as "Noun" or "Verb".

Mood

Mood indicates the speaker’s attitude toward the action or event described by the verb.

Noun

French nouns are used to describe many things. It can be concrete like objects, people or places or abstract like ideas, feelings or situations. French is a gendered language so nouns can either be masculine or feminine.

Preposition

Prepositions are words that connect and show the relationship between nouns, pronouns, adverbs or verbs in sentences.

Pronoun

Pronouns are used to replace a noun or a subject in a sentence and avoid repetition. These pronouns can then directly refer to people, ideas, places or objects.

Tense

The tense of a verb specifies when the action or event occurs.

Verb

Verbs are words that express actions, states or changes. They are the heart of a sentence. They conjugate according to the tense, subject and mood with which they are associated.