Making Plans (AQA GCSE French): Flashcards
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Je voudrais …
Je voudrais … means I would like (to).
peut-être
Peut-être means maybe or perhaps.
d'accord
D'accord means OK.
How do you say 'Do you want to …?' in French?
'Do you want to …?' is Tu veux … ? in French.
What does À quelle heure ? mean?
À quelle heure ? means 'At what time?'.
What does désolé(e) mean?
Désolé(e) means sorry.
le week-end
Le week-end means the weekend.
venir
Venir means to come.
sortir
Sortir means to go out.
True or False?
Days of the week are written with a capital letter in French.
False.
Days of the week (and months) do not have capital letters in French, e.g. lundi, samedi.
Tu veux aller au cinéma dimanche ?
Tu veux aller au cinéma dimanche après-midi ?
On the 24-hour clock used in French, which number do you use to say 3PM?
To say 3PM in French you use the 24-hour number 15 (quinze heures).
True or False?
When telling the time in French, you can leave out the word heure(s), just as English drops 'o'clock'.
False.
English often drops 'o'clock', but in French you must include heure(s).
le matin
Le matin means the morning.
Define modal verb.
A modal verb says what you can, want, need or must do, and is used with another verb in the infinitive.
What form of the verb follows a modal verb in French?
A modal verb is followed by another verb in the infinitive.
What does devoir mean?
Devoir means to have to or must.
What does pouvoir mean?
Pouvoir means to be able to or can.
What does savoir mean?
Savoir means to know (how to).
What does vouloir mean?
Vouloir means to want.
Je aller au supermarché. (I must go to the supermarket.)
Je dois aller au supermarché.
Elle nager. (She knows how to swim.)
Elle sait nager.
What does je voudrais mean?
Je voudrais means 'I would like'; it is the conditional form of vouloir.
True or False?
Je peux means 'I want'.
False.
Je peux means 'I can'; 'I want' is je veux.
How do you form 'Let's …' in French?
To form 'Let's …', take the nous form of the verb and remove nous, e.g. nous mangeons → Mangeons !
nous mangeons → ! (Let's eat!)
nous mangeons → Mangeons ! (Let's eat!)
True or False?
French has a separate single word for 'let's'.
False.
There is no separate word for 'let's' in French; you take the nous form of the verb and drop nous.
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