Savoir (to know) and Voir
(to see) are in the Top Ten and must be known by heart.
Rejoindre (to get back to, to join) is not so common
but it is the model of how to pronounce -oindre verbs. -oindre verbs are
neither numerous nor common. I give an example for you to recognize them
if you hear them.
| Savoir | Voir | Rejoindre |
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With falloir (to need or to have to),
the Top Ten is easily completed
because falloir is conjugated in the third person only:
il faut.
In item 12 mener follows the pattern of acheter and gets an accent when its forms have a silent ending.
The verb aller means to go.
It may be used (almost) as an auxiliary verb. Item 17 provides
an example of how aller + a verb in the infinitive
is used to express the immediate future.
It is the French equivalent of "to be going to".
In spoken French, the immediate future is, by far, the most
usual way to express the future.
The immediate future is not a laxist way of speaking. It is mainly used
in conversations because you mainly speak of what you are going to do right
now.
Don't think that you will speak better French if you use the formal future.
Aller is primary for the negative:
Je ne vais pas descendre du métro
and secondary for the pronouns that remain near the second verb (the
subject keeps its place):
René va la lui donner demain.
Nous allons le leur dire samedi.
Place has several meanings. It also means:
place (like in "a place for everything and everything in its place").
une place: a seat.
gagner de la place: to save room.
il y a juste la place: there's just enough room.
La
Comédie-Française, also called la Maison de Molière,
is the French national theatre.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, dite Colette,
(1873-1954) is the author of Gigi and Le Blé en Herbe,
etc. In collaboration with Willy, she wrote the "Claudine"
series.