Basic structures of a French sentence.
| article | noun | verb | attribut |
| Le | soleil | est | jaune |
| subject | verb | object | ||
| article | noun | verb | article | noun |
| Le | nuage | cache | le | soleil |
| subject | verb | complement | |||
| article | noun | verb | preposition | article | noun |
| Le | nuage | est | dans | le | ciel |
In linguistics, a complement is a word or phrase having
a particular syntactic role. There are many kinds of complements.
The canonical order of phrases in a French sentence is:
subject + verb + complement.
That does not mean it is the sole possible order.
Below, the vocabulary that appears in the first cloud.
I add it to help you with the first lesson. I do not intend to copy a
dictionary.
The best and easiest way to learn it is to look for it by yourself:
le ciel: the sky, le soleil: the sun, le nuage: the cloud, les nuages: the
clouds
Être: to be
le soleil est dans le ciel: the sun is in the sky
le nuage est
dans le ciel: the cloud is in the sky
le nuage et le soleil sont dans
le ciel: the cloud and the sun are in the sky
le soleil est derrière le
nuage: the sun is behind the cloud
le nuage est devant le soleil: the
cloud is before the sun
Avoir: to have
il y a des nuages dans le ciel: there
are clouds in the sky
il y a un nuage blanc dans le ciel
bleu: there is a white cloud in the blue sky
il est devant le soleil:
it is before the sun
le soleil est jaune: the sun is yellow
il y a des
nuages dans le ciel: there are clouds in the sky
le ciel est nuageux:
the sky is cloudy