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French grammar is the set of rules by which the French language creates statements, questions and commands. In many respects, it is quite similar to that of the other Romance languages . French is a moderately inflected language.
Parthenope and her sister were first educated at home by a governess, but because it was difficult for the Nightinglae's to "find a governess who would satisfy W.E.N's intellectual requirements or Fanny's standard of elegance and breeding," [3] they later were taught, Greek, Latin, German, French, Italian, history, grammar, composition, and ...
"14th of July", usually called Bastille Day in English. The beginning of the French Revolution in 1789; used to refer to the Revolution itself and its ideals. It is the French National Day. quelle bonne idée! What a good idea! quel dommage! What a sad thing! (can be used sarcastically).
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English is a daughter language of Old English, which is a daughter language of Proto-Germanic, which is a daughter language of Proto-Indo-European. [3] Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Romanian are all daughter languages of Latin, which is a daughter language of Proto-Italic, which is a daughter language of Proto-Indo-European. [4]
Another example is the relationship between Modern Scots and English. Scots is considered to be a sister language of English because they are both descended from the common ancestor Old English (via Early Middle English). The phonological development of the two languages is divergent, with different loanwords entering each language from sources ...
French personal pronouns (analogous to English I, you, he/she, we, they, etc.) reflect the person and number of their referent, and in the case of the third person, its gender as well (much like the English distinction between him and her, except that French lacks an inanimate third person pronoun it or a gender neutral they and thus draws this distinction among all third person nouns ...
French verbs have a large number of simple (one-word) forms. These are composed of two distinct parts: the stem (or root, or radix), which indicates which verb it is, and the ending (inflection), which indicates the verb's tense (imperfect, present, future etc.) and mood and its subject's person (I, you, he/she etc.) and number, though many endings can correspond to multiple tense-mood-subject ...