Canonical Order of a French Sentence





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







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