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Kreeeee said:
Give me a few months and I'll take you up on that offer!

P.S. Gender in language is balls :(
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It is confusing, but funnily enough we can identify the gender of a word without even knowing the word - it's weird, it's a sort of instinct you develop when you learn.

However, would be more than happy to give you some time to practice in a live environment. :)

dirtychinchilla said:
Well, in general in French the descriptive word comes after the noun.
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Often that is the case, but in this instance that would be wrong I'm afraid!
 
Ah damn it!!! It's one of those things, as well, where there's not really a rule, right? You just kind of know it?

I vaguely have that kind of instinct for gender, that you speak of. I think you just end up subconsciously recognising that certain sounds are certain genders (this is an obvious statement, isn't it!!).
 
Rotty said:
why would I want to talk to French people? :confused: :p
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Precisely. I live there and I'm an ignorant **** :p who has lived here now... 2 years? I work in Basel mind, which is Swiss speaking, and I work all in English. I can get by, but I don't use it enough. If you really want to learn it, do what we did to the kids (who knew NONE) and threw them in to a French school :D
 
I live in a city where 80% speak french still took me some time as only jobs I got were in English speaking firms worked for a year in a mainly french environment and my french came on more than any amount of courses.

Do as children do and don't be afraid of mistakes only by talking and listening to French speakers you'll suceed great thing now is the wealth of free youtube podcasts etc all in French even SKY TV has some french channels.
 
The verb manger is regular and in the present tense follows the normal conjugation.

The "é" sound is often associated with the "passé composer" (i.e. the past).

In the present form, it would be "tu manges", and "vous mangez"

The conjugation for the present tense is:

je mange
tu manges
il mange
nous mangeons
vous mangez
ils mangent

The passé composé conjugates to:

j'ai mangé
tu as mangé
il a mangé
nous avons mangé
vous avez mangé
ils ont mangé

(I have eaten / I ate / I did eat)

The imperfect (imparfait) has as lot of "é" sounding endings:

je mangeais
tu mangeais
il mangeait
nous mangions
vous mangiez
ils mangeaient

(I was eating)

Subtle, but in French makes a big difference. Just like in English you'd use the 2 tenses to describe things in the past in different scenarios.
 
There are -ir, -er, -re verbs - they all follow their own pattern.

Another -er verbe, regarder (to see):

je regarde
tu regardes
il/elle regarde
nous regardons
vous regardez
ils/elles regardent

Follows the same pattern as manger. :)

Learn the present tense first. Then concentrate on the simple past then the imperfect. The future gets more complicated as does the conditional and subjective!
 
so with "er" verbs it goes like this?

je surrende
tu surrendes
il/elle surrende
nous surrendons
vous surrendez
ils/elles surrendent

is that correct? ;)
 
Oh look.... :p

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The regular verbs are all well and good, it's the *******ing ones that don't. Then the future, past, future conditional and all that gubbins.

Je mangerais beaucoup de glace, si je veux. Or something.
 
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