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Common terms and phrases
Acad adjective adverb agree allé avoir beginning bien brother C'est called compound tenses COND CONDITIONAL Conjugate conjunction deux direct ending English été être EXAMPLES EXCEPTION EXERCISE expressed faire fait feminine fini finished followed formed France French friends FUTURE gender give grand homme IMPER IMPERFECT indefinite INDICATIVE infinitive Italy J'ai king language letter live livre loué manner Masc masculine means never noun nous object Observe parlé participle Past person placed plural preceded preposition Pres PRESENT Pret PRETERITE DEFINITE promené pronoun qu'il received reçu regimen relate relative REMARK require rich RULE s'en sense Simple Tenses singular sister sometimes speak SUBJ Subjunctive substantive termination thing third thou tout vendu verb vowel walk wish write
Popular passages
Page 109 - Je m'en vais, tu t'en vas, il s'en va, nous nous en allons, vous vous en allez, ils s'en vont, IMPERFECT.
Page 7 - An Article is a word prefixed to substantives, to point them out, and to show how far their signification extends : as, a garden, an eagle, the woman.
Page 20 - In English the adjective is not varied on account of gender, number, or case. Thus we say, "A careless boy ; careless girls."* The only variation which it admits, is that of the degrees of comparison. There are three degrees of comparison; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive state expresses the quality of an object, without any increase or diminution; as good, wise, great.
Page 59 - Que je sois, That I may be. que tu sois, that thou mayst be. qu'il soit, that he may be. que nous soyons, that we may be. que vous soyez, that you may be. q'uils soient, that they may be.
Page 37 - Le mien, Le tien, Le sien, Le nôtre, Le vôtre, Le leur, Fem.
Page 145 - Que je croie, que tu croies, qu'il croie, que nous croyions, que vous croyiez, qu'ils croient.
Page 107 - Infinitive, as prier, lier, are written with double ii in the first and second persons plural of the imperfect of the indicative, and present of the subjunctive ; as nous priions, vous priiez ;• que nous liions, que vous liiez.
Page 55 - J'aurai eu. Tu auras eu. Il aura eu. Nous aurons eu. Vous aurez eu. Ils auront eu.
Page 1 - The letters are divided into Vowels and Consonants. The Vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y.
Page 130 - ... je peux tu peux il peut nous pouvons vous pouvez ils peuvent...
Bibliographic information
| Title | New Grammar of French Grammars |
| Author | Alain Auguste Victor de Fivas |
| Edition | 7 |
| Publisher | Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1847 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 182 pages |
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