Bonjour et bienvenue 😊🇫🇷
Here we have the ninth structure in the Building Structures in French series. By this point, we've looked at how to use various structures to talk about the past and present tenses, we can talk about what would happen and we've most recently learnt how to give orders and commands in French.
Dans ce neuvième cours, on va pratiquer un peu l'art de la divination. In this ninth course, we're going to practise a bit of the art of divination. We're going to be looking to the future and using the future tense.
The future tense is a tense that is very similar in its formation to the conditional. Whereas in English, we can simply use the word will in front of a verb to talk about the future, in French, we have to add something to the end of the verb instead.
The future tense is a tense that can be used to talk about... well, the future. We can say what will happen and what you will do. In this course, we'll be exploring how we can use this tense in the structure of a question, and then we'll dissect it and form non-questions and negative statements.
The good news about the future tense is that its meilleur ami (best friend) is the conditional. The conditional stems (if you're not sure what this term means, have a quick recap of Structure 8) are exactly the same as the future tense stems. This means we don't have to do much learning, all we need to know is what endings we have to add to the stems. The verbs that are irregular in the conditional are the exact same verbs that are irregular in the future tense.
Now, the future tense in English is basically the word will, or in the negative, it's the word won't. We can say things like:
- I will see Marie tomorrow
- Where will you go?
- What will he do?
- They won't buy that
- She won't arrive before 5pm
As useful as this tense is in English, it's even more useful in French. The reason is because there are more occasions in French where you need to employ the future tense than there are in English. This might sound strange now, but once you're in the midst of Building Structures in French - Structure 9, it'll all make sense.
Alors, sans plus attendre, commençons avec la neuvième structure.
So, without further delay, let's start with the ninth structure.
Merci beaucoup 😊
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Full curriculum (watch the first few lessons for free)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 2a (2:30)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 2b (3:19)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 2c (2:49)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 2d (3:12)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 2e (3:10)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 2f (3:11)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 2g (3:26)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 2h (3:25)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 5a (3:16)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 5b (3:20)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 5c (3:16)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 5d (3:10)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 5e (3:11)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 5f (3:13)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 5g (3:26)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 5h (3:29)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 5i (3:19)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 5j (3:09)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 5k (2:33)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 6a (3:00)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 6b (3:14)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 6c (3:26)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 6d (3:24)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 6e (3:28)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 6f (3:13)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 6g (3:08)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 6h (3:12)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 6i (3:30)
- French - Structure 9 - Chapter 6j (4:08)
Building Structures 10, 3 Minute French and Grammar courses
As well as the Building Structures in French series, I've created another series called 3 Minute French
Once you have completed this course, if you would like to learn more French using the same method, you can find the next courses below:
3 Minute Languages series
3 Minute French - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6 | Course 7 | Course 8 | Course 9 | Course 10 | Course 11 | Course 12 | Course 13 | Course 14 | Course 15 | Course 16
3 Minute Spanish - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6 | Course 7
3 Minute Italian - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6 | Course 7
3 Minute German - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6
3 Minute Portuguese - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4
Building Structures series
Building Structures in French - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4 | Structure 5 | Structure 6 | Structure 7 | Structure 8 | Structure 9
Building Structures in Spanish - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4 | Structure 5
Building Structures in Italian - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4 | Structure 5
Building Structures in German - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4
Building Structures in Portuguese - Structure 1
Quick Guides series
French - Verbs 1
Spanish - Verbs 1
German - Verbs 1
Italian - Verbs 1
Portuguese - Verbs 1
Grammar courses
Essential French grammar - Future | Conditional | Imperfect
Essential Spanish grammar - Future | Conditional | Imperfect
English courses
Maths courses
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Further learning material
You can find plenty of articles and YouTube videos I've created to help you with your language learning. Find them all here:
YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_W8zw-DxvfU0lF_ojIm2mA
Blog: https://www.3minute.club/blog
I hope you enjoy :-)
Happy learning!
Kieran