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Knowing when to use the subjunctive is a complex affair that confuses even fluent french speakers at times. It has its subtleties, but a good trick is sticking to what makes sense, rather than applying a ...

Irregular french verbs take être as their auxiliary, meaning you would replace the avoir component with être in the present tense. 'je vais', for example, would become 'je suis allé' in the perfect tense....

THEME 1: IDENTITY AND CULTURETOPIC 1: Me, my family and friendsDe nos jour devenir un parent n'est plus considéré comme une nécessité. Jadis le gouvernement renforçait que la parentalité ...

Avoir is most commonly used in this case. So, if in doubt, it's safer to use avoir. However there are certain verbs that use être when forming the perfec...

Definite articles (le, la, l', les) mean "the" and depend on the noun that follows. They are called definite because they are used to indicate a specific thing(s). For example: le livre -...