Le français au Québec · Book I
Grammaire
Everyday rules, with sentences heard in Quebec.
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Table of contentsGrammaire
Table of contents
Chapter I
A1
Verbs
01Introducing yourself: “Je m’appelle…”, “Je suis…”, “J’habite…”A1502“Avoir” and “être” in the present tenseA1703“Il y a”: saying that something existsA1904“Je voudrais…”: asking for something politelyA111Asking questions
05Asking a question with “Est-ce que… ?”A11306“Quel / quelle / quels / quelles” in questionsA115Negation
07Negation: “ne … pas”A117Nouns and adjectives
08Articles: “le / la / les” and “un / une / des”A119Prepositions and adverbs
09Saying where you are going: “à”, “chez”, “dans”, “en”, “au”A121Chapter II
A2
Verbs
10The “vous” imperative: giving polite instructionsA22311The passé composé with “avoir” and with “être”A22512The near future: “aller” + infinitiveA22713“Il faut” + infinitive: saying what is requiredA22914The imparfait: describing the past and habitsA23115Everyday reflexive verbs: se lever, s’inscrire, s’appelerA233Asking questions
16Inversion questions: “Pourriez-vous… ?”, “Avez-vous… ?”A235Negation
17Ne… jamais, ne… rien, ne… plus, ne… personneA237Pronouns
18“On” instead of “nous”A23919The object pronouns “le, la, les, l’” before the verbA24120The pronoun “en”: quantities and “de + noun”A24321The pronoun “y”: “à + place”A24522Stressed pronouns: moi, toi, lui, elle, nous, vous, eux (chez moi, avec lui, moi aussi)A247Nouns and adjectives
23Adjectives: agreement and position (un petit bar, une grande salle, un document officiel)A249Spoken Quebec French
24The Quebec “-tu” question: “Tu veux-tu ?”, “Ça marche-tu ?”A25125“Tu” or “vous” in Quebec?A253Chapter III
B1
Verbs
26The conditional: asking politely and talking about a possibilityB15527The subjunctive after “il faut que”, “pour que”, “avant que”B15728“Si” + present: a condition, then an instruction or a futureB15929The futur simple: promises, plans and official answersB16130The plus-que-parfait: what had happened beforeB16331The passive voice (“a été envoyé”) and conversational “on”B16532The gérondif “en + -ant”: en attendant, en arrivant, en parlantB16733Reporting what someone said: “elle a dit que…”, “il m’a demandé si…”B169Pronouns
34Relative pronouns: qui, que, où, dontB17135“C’est” or “il est”?B173Prepositions and adverbs
36Depuis, pendant, il y a, dans: placing things in timeB17537Comparing: plus / moins / aussi … que, le plus, meilleur and mieuxB17738Placing events in time: quand, dès que, pendant que, avant de, après avoirB179Spoken Quebec French
39Ben, là, faque, pis, genre: the little words of spoken FrenchB18140Everyday Quebec words and how they fit in the sentence: magasiner, dépanneur, char, c’est correct, tantôt, pantouteB183vieauqc.com— iii —
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