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This episode is the third part of a series about asking questions in French. If you ever travel to France and engage in any interaction with a native French speaker, you’ll definitely need to ask them questions in French! In order to give you the confidence to do so, this episode will focus on getting the order of the sentence right when the verb is made of several words (I’ll talk about the compound tenses, the near future and the recent past). We’ll reuse what you’ve learnt in episode 111 of French Your Way Podcast to play around with the different structures to ask questions in French, so if you’re new to this podcast I recommend you first listen to episode 111 (www.frenchyourway.com.au/podcast111 )
Vocabulary and Spelling of the French Words mentioned in this episode
When were you born? = tu es né quand? / Quand est-ce que tu es né ? / Quand es-tu né ?
What did they decide? = Ils ont décidé quoi? / Qu’est-ce qu’ils ont décidé ? / Qu’ont-ils décidé ?
Had she done this before ? = Elle avait déjà fait ça avant ? Est-ce qu’elle avait déjà fait ça avant ? / Avait-elle dejà fait ça avant ?
Where are you going to go? = Tu vas aller où ? Où est-ce que tu vas aller? / Où vas-tu aller?
What time is the movie going to finish? Le film va finir à quelle heure ? / à quelle heure est-ce que le film va finir ? / à quelle heure le film va-t-il finir ?
He just left = Il vient de partir.
Did he juste leave? = Il vient de partir ? / Est-ce qu’il vient de partir ? / Vient-il de partir ?
LINKS and RESOURCES
- Episode 111 : Questions in French (Part 1): the 3 ways to ask a question
- Episode 115 : Questions in French (Part 2): The different translations of “what…?”
- Episode 61 :” Challenge – Can I Make You Love French Grammar?“:
- My article: “Can I Make You Love French Grammar?“
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