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Notes le 2 novembre

Learn the four ways to form questions in French and how to make negative statements with "ne...pas." Improve your language skills today!

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Notes le 2 novembre

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  1. Notes le 2 novembre Les questions et la négation Questions and negation

  2. Tu aimes les maths? Do youlike math? Est-ce que tu parles espagnol? Do you speak Spanish? Habitez-vous à Paris? Do you live in Paris? Elle travaille beaucoup, n’est-ce pas? Sheworks a lot, doesn’tshe?

  3. There are four ways to form a question in French. The first method, intonation, involves raising the tone of your voice at the end of the question. The word order is the same as a statement. Tu détestes les sciences? You hate science? Ils parlent japonais? TheyspeakJapanese?

  4. The second method involves the use of the expression est-ceque… . Est-cequeis placed at the beginning of the question. Est-ce que tu détestes les sciences? Do youhate science? Est-ce qu’ils parlent japonais? Do theyspeakJapanese? Notice the required contraction betweenqueandilsin the second example.

  5. The third method involves inverting the position of the subject and the verb and connecting the two with a hyphen. This iscalledinversion. Détestes-tu les sciences? Do youhate science? Parlent-ils japonais? Do theyspeakJapanese?

  6. When mentioning a name with inversion, put the name first, then invert the pronoun after the verb. Place a t between the verb and the pronoun using hyphens if the subject is il, elleor on. Paul habite-t-il à Paris? Does Paul live in Paris? Marie et Charlotte parlent-elles anglais?Do Marie and Charlotte speak English?

  7. The fourth method to make a question involves the use of the expression n’est-ce pas. N’est-ce pas means isn’t it, doesn’t it, don’t you, don’t they, etc.. It is placed at the end of a statement separated by a comma. Elle habite en France, n’est-ce pas? She lives in France, doesn’t she? Le français est facile, n’est-ce pas? French is easy, isn’t it?

  8. La négation To make a negative statement, place ne…pas around the verb. If the verb begins with a vowel or a silent h, ne contracts with the verb. Patrick ne parle pas français. Patrick doesn’tspeak French. Nous n’aimons pas les devoirs. Wedon’tlikehomework. Vous n’habitez pas ici. You don’t live here.

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