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We can often find out the gender of nouns in French by looking at the spelling. The end of the word can give us a clue. for example, words ending in -age, -ier, -oir and -eur and mostly masculine, such as...

Present tense in French is used in different situations:

1) immediate action: the action is taking place while you are speaking

ex: Je n'entends pas ce que vous dites...

The imperfect tense is a past tense. There are three reasons why we might use the imperfect tense and these can be remembered as: habitual, incomplete and descriptive. What does 'habitual' mean? Habitual ...

J’habite à Lichfield qui se trouve au centre d’Angleterre. À 30 kilomètres au sud, il y a la ville de Birmingham, tandis qu’à environ 200 kilomètres au sud-est, il y a la capitale, Londres.

Lichfie...

It is a tense to express a doubt or a wish such as "I wish it were sunny."

It's constructed in the present tense by taking the 'Ils' form, removing the ending and adding e, es, e, ions, i...