Sunday, March 16, 2008

He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind! Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête!


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French Weekly Lesson/ Leçon de la semaine:

French Vocabulary/ Vocabulaire

  • une tour: a tower
  • une éolienne; a windmill
  • l'energie propre: the clean energy
  • un panneau: a sign
  • soutenir une campagne : to support a campaign

French Verbs

Present Indicative of French regular verbs (2nd group):
-ir verbs (type "finir" = to finish)


To conjugate in present indicative, drop the infinitive ending (-ir) and replace by: -is, -is, -it, -issons, -issez, -issent .

French Affirmative Form - (I finish, I am finishing, I do finish):

je finis (I finish)nous finissons (we finish)
tu finis (you finish: sing)vous finissez (you finish: plur)
il/elle finit (he/she finishes)ils/elles finissent (they finish)


French Negative Form - (I am not finishing, I do not finish):

je ne finis pas (I do not finish)nous ne finissons pas (we do not finish)
tu ne finis pas(you do not finish: sing)vous ne finissez pas(you do not finish: plur)
il/elle ne finit pas(he/she doesn't finish use)ils/elles ne finnissent pas(they do not finish)

French Interrogative Form - (Are you finishing? Do you finish?):

est-ce que je finis? (do I finish)finissons-nous?(do we finish)
finis-tu (do you finish? sing) finissez-vous? (do you finish? plur)
finit-il/elle? (does he/she finish?)finissent-ils/elles? (do they finish?)

  1. A hyphen is written between the subject and the verb: finis-tu?
  2. When asking a question with a noun as subject, first state the noun, and then invert the verb and the pronoun subject: les étudiants réussissent-ils? (Do the students succeed?).

Here is a list of common French -ir verbs ( 2nd group):

accomplir: (to accomplish), agir: (to act) , applaudir: (to applaud), approfondir (to go into details), atterrir (to land), avertir (), bâtir: (to build), bénir: (to bless), choisir: (to choose), désobeir: (to disobey), divertir (to distract, to entertain), démolir (to demolish), enrichir: (to enrich, to improve), envahir: (to invade), établir: (to establish), fleurir: (to bloom), fournir: (to provide, to supply), franchir: (to pass over), garantir: (to garantee), grandir: (to grow), grossir: (to put on weight, to gain weight), guérir: (to heal, to cure), investir: (to invest), jaunir: (to turn yellow), maigrir: (to lose weight), nourrir: (to feed), obéir: (to obey), punir: (to punish), réfléchir: (to think), remplir: (to fill), réussir (to succeed, to pass), rougir: (to blush), saisir: (to seize), subir (to undergo, to suffer, to endure), trahir: (to betray) ...

Exercise/ Exercice:

Test on French Verbs:

Present Tense of French Regular -ir verbs
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Directions
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Fill in the following blanks with the correct verb form of the Present Indicative:
To see the answer, double click in the the next box.

1. (choisir/ to choose). Elle un livre (she chooses a book).

choisit

2. (réfléchir/ to think). Ils intensément. (They think hard).

réfléchissent

3. (atterrir /to land). L'avion à Boston. (The plane lands in Boston).

atterrit

4. (réussir/ to pass). Vous tout. (You[plur] succeed in everything).

réussissez

5. (applaudir/ to applaud). J' à la fin du spectacle. (I applaud at the end of the show).

applaudis

6. (agir / to act). Tu n' pas bien! (You [sing] don't act well!).

agis

7. (grossir/ to put on weight). Je en ce moment. (I am putting on weight these days).

grossis

8. (fleurir/ to bloom). Les pommiers au printemps. (apple trees bloom in spring).

fleurissent

9. (finir/ to finish, to end). Tu mton travail à 7 heures. (You [sing] end my work at 7h ).

finis

10. (guérir/ to cure). Ce médicament -il sa maladie. (Does this medicine cure his/her disease).

guérit

11. (remplir/ to fill). Vous ne pas votre verre avec de l'eau. (you don't fill your glass with water).

remplissez

12. (choisir/ to choose). Nous un autre film. (we choose another movie).

choisissons

13.(subir/to suffer ). Ils les conséquences de la sécheresse. (They suffer consequences of drought).

subissent

14.(accomplir/ to accomplish), to achieve. Le coureur une performance. (the runner achieves a performance).

accomplit

15. (investir/ to invest). -vous dans l'or? (Do you invest in gold?).

investissez







7 comments:

George Townboy said...

I have to say, Dorothee, this was a tough one for me. I'm going to come back and go over it again.

The amount of work you do to produce these lessons is amazing! I appreciate it very much! Thank you.

alice said...

French verbs are a real nightmare! Dorothée, don't forget to tell your English speaking readers it's VERY difficult for French people too ;-)!

Anonymous said...

Drothee,
this lesson was great! I read through it and took the test and I answered correctly each time :) It seems like you put alot of work and effort into this blog, it looks great!

~Margot

Anonymous said...

Dorothee*

Unknown said...

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for your so nice comments. I love doing this blog, but I have to admit it's a tremendous work to produce only one lesson. Blogger is not very flexible, so I have to use HTML code a lot.

> Don't gove up George twonboy!

> Tu as raison Alice. C’est parfois un cauchemar. Mes étudiants de Boston (même les enfants) sont très patients heureusement et adorent notre langue, donc ils s’accrochent.

> Bonjour Margot!
I am glad this lesson helped you and Bravo for your score :-) Thanks a lot for your kind words.

Unknown said...

oops,typo! I mean: Don't GIVE up George townboy :-)
have a great day!

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