Knowra French grammar French grammar French grammar is the system governing how French words change form and combine into phrases and sentences, including agreement, tense, mood, and word order.
French parts of speech : Categories such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, defined by their grammatical roles in French. These categories determine which forms words can take and how they combine.
French verb conjugation : The changes in French verb forms that mark person, number, tense, mood, and sometimes voice. Conjugation is the main way French verbs express who acts and when.
French prepositions : Invariable French words that introduce noun phrases and express relations such as location, direction, or cause. Prepositions mark relationships that other languages may encode through case endings.
French relative clauses : French clauses that modify a noun and are introduced by a relative pronoun or related construction. Relative clauses show how pronouns connect modifiers to noun phrases.
French grammatical gender : A noun classification system in French, usually masculine or feminine, that controls agreement with related words. Gender links nouns to the forms of articles, adjectives, and pronouns.
French subject–verb agreement : The grammatical matching of a French verb’s person and number with its subject. This agreement links clause subjects directly to finite verb forms.
French grammatical cases : Inflectional forms that mark a noun phrase’s grammatical role, largely absent from modern French nouns. French relies more on word order and prepositions than noun case endings.
French questions : Interrogative constructions in French, formed through intonation, inversion, est-ce que, or question words. Question formation brings word order, pronouns, and clause structure together.
French number : The grammatical distinction between singular and plural forms in French. Number agreement connects nouns with determiners, adjectives, and verbs.
French adjective agreement : The changes in French adjective forms that mark agreement with the nouns they modify. Adjective agreement shows how noun gender and number propagate through a phrase.
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