French Vocabulary Magazine
Notes on register, verlan, memory, listening, and the words that change meaning with context - from formal vs informal French to spaced repetition and Shadowing.
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- Thematic Vocabulary
Emotions in French: Être Content or Avoir Peur?
French emotions split between être + adjective (je suis content) and avoir + noun (j'ai peur). The full feelings vocabulary, organized by which pattern to use.
- Grammar
En and Y: The Two French Pronouns Everyone Avoids (Until Now)
En replaces de + noun (j'en ai). Y replaces à + place (j'y vais). The two trickiest French pronouns, explained with real examples.
- Vocabulary
Encore in French: Meaning and Usage
Learn encore with a clear guide, natural French examples and English glosses, common mistakes, nuanced usage, and practical review.
- Vocabulary
Ensemble in French: Meaning and Usage
Learn ensemble in context with natural French examples, English glosses, common mistakes, usage nuance, and practical review.
- Vocabulary
Entrer in French: Entrer dans and the Missing Preposition
Entrer needs dans before a place in French, unlike English enter. Learn the preposition, the être auxiliary, and rentrer versus entrer.
- Conjugation
-ER Verbs in French: The Pattern, and Its Four Spelling Quirks
-ER verbs cover 9 in 10 French verbs - but manger, commencer, acheter and appeler each bend the pattern slightly. The full spelling-change rules.
- Vocabulary
Esprit in French: Meaning and Usage
Learn esprit in context with natural French examples, English glosses, common mistakes, usage nuance, and practical review.
- Expressions
Essayer: A French False-Friend Trap
Learn essaie / essaye with a clear guide, natural French examples and English glosses, common mistakes, nuanced usage, and practical review.
- Expressions
Est-ce que in French: Meaning and Usage
Est-ce que forms neutral French yes/no and information questions. Learn word order, qu’est-ce que, register, negation, and natural alternatives.
- Vocabulary
État in French: Meaning and Usage
Learn état in context with natural French examples, English glosses, common mistakes, usage nuance, and practical review.
Short notes on French vocabulary with nuance.
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