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Teach me your language I teach you mine

thank you guys so much :woot:
this is amazing ^_^

although, i still need help :angry: sorry if im beginning to annoy everyone :p its just im so bad at french but want to be so good! i just dont understand...

when to use etre and avoir?

je/jai/je suis?? im so stuck :lol:

and imperfect/future/present/imperfect tense?

:(
 
je it's nothing, it's just i you always used it with a verb. J'ai means i have, so you use it when you want to say that you have something, J'ai ton livre (i have your book), je suis means i'm je suis tres timide (i'm very shy), etc.
You use it the same way you use it in english. The only exception is the age:
I 'm 17 years old in english
J'ai 17 ans (i HAVE) in french. So when you want to say how old u are in french you use the verb avoir.
 
thanks FashionJunkie :woot: i think i get it now ^_^

look what I did for my website to help me with the weather :woot:
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:p
 
The tenses

Present:

To describe something you are doing every day:

Je commence tous les jours a 8h sauf le jeudi ou je commence a 10h.
(i start everyday at 8 except for Thrusday where i start at 10)

To say something that it's going to happen (but for a short period):

Je pars en vacance dimanche prochain.
(i'm going on vacation this sunday)

Anything that happens now:

Il lit un livre
(he reads a book)

Futur:

For something that is certain:

l'homme sera toujours l'homme
(Man will always be man)

Something that will happen in the future:

Paul va se marrier en mai
(Paul will get married on May)

Imparfait:

Something that you used to do in the past:

Ils commencaient a 10h le matin.
(They used to start at 10 o'clock in the morning)

If you suggest something:

Si on allait bavarder ailleurs?
(If we went somewhere else to talk?)



To tell you the truth i really try to explain. I don't know why i say anything i say, and i understand better the tenses because in greek we have a lot of tenses too. French and english aren't my mother languages, so i can't really explain.
Basically just translate.

I eat
Je mange

I will be there
Je serai la

And i think imparfait is basically - i used to.:flower:
 
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I have the same problem as you JR1 but with english tenses
duuuh!! except my lack of vocabulary sometimes, I think it's my major problem!!
anyway FashionJunkie I think your explanation was quite good...
but:

If you suggest something:

Si on allait bavarder ailleurs?
(If we went somewhere else to talk?)
when you suggest something or most of the time when there's if (si)
it's conditionnel not imparfait

And i think imparfait is basically - i used to
yes most of the time it is but you can also translate preterit or some other english tenses with an imparfait.. and that's why it is so hard for me...
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the only tense that is the same in french and in english is the past perfect (plus-que-parfait):
they have the same use too

EX/ I had started to laugh before she speaks..
j'avais commencé a rire avant qu'elle ne parle...

hope it helps:flower:
 
Party.in.Paris said:
when you suggest something or most of the time when there's if (si)
it's conditionnel not imparfait

yes but we do say is on allait bavarder ailleurs?

or si on allait dans ma voiture?

I had the impression we say that. :unsure:
 
yes we do!! those sentences are perfectly correct!!! it's just that it isn't Imparfait but conditionnel...
so you can't translate it with a past in English
- 'si on allait dans ma voiture' is a suggestion so you can translate it by 'why don't we go to my car' or 'let's go to my car'

(I undestand why you think its imparfait...because the verbs look like it, it's the same ending...but well it's a conditionnel-- French is a hard language :D)
 
kotoshi anatawa kanadade ookikute murasakino kutsu o tabenakerebanarimasenka?

that means "do you have to eat a big purple shoe this year in canada?" in japanese :blush:

(i'm in my third year taking japanese at my high school and we just had a little fun contest thing and we had to come up with super random questions.. and that was mine..)

-Riley

p.s. i'm kind of new to posting here... but i've been looking around the site for a very long time now
 
I need sooooo much help with Spanish! I'm nearly halfway through my 2nd year and my AWFUL teacher hasn't even started on past tense verbs! :angry: :cry:

I'm good with what we do in class, but I want to learn so much more! I'm afraid to talk with native Spanish speakers because I know I'll sound dumb :blush:
 
Aw, sweet! Or shall I say, dulce?! :lol:

¿Puedes me enseñar sobre un poco de los verbos y sus tiempos por favor?

Hehe, I hope that sounds right! I only had to translate one word (tense, as in verb tense) :lol:
 
Oh! And by that, I meant, can you show me the conjugation for regular past tense verbs? Just the regular ir, er, ar, nothing fancy, lol. Like, we learned in a little chart, like

o amos
as ais
a an

EDIT: And I REALLY want to the learn the past tense of "ir"! I know, "I go to the mall" is "Voy al centro", but how do you say I WENT to the mall?
 
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xmodel citizen said:
EDIT: And I REALLY want to the learn the past tense of "ir"! I know, "I go to the mall" is "Voy al centro", but how do you say I WENT to the mall?

I went... - Yo fui... or* Fui al centro.
You went... - Tu fuiste... Fuiste al centro.
He/she went... - El/Ella fue... Fue al centro.
We went... - Nosotros fuimos... Fuimos al centro.
You(pl) went... - Ustedes fueron... Fueron al centro.
They went... - Ellos fueron... Fueron al centro.

*You don't always have to say the pronoun (yo,tu,ellos...) because the verb ending indicates which person you are talking about, exept you in plural and they (ustedes and ellos) because it's the same, fueron.
:)
 
Yay! Thanks so much! And that conjugation is the same for ser, right? I use "fue" a lot because I don't know the past tense conjugation for estar :lol:
 
You're welcome!:)

Ser
Yo soy
Tu eres
El/ella es
Nosotros somos
Ustedes son
Ellos son

Ser past tense
Yo era
Tu eras
El/ella era
Nosotros eramos
Ustedes eran
Ellos eran

Estar (past tense)
Yo estaba
Tu estabas
El/ella estaba
Nosotros estabamos
Ustedes estaban
Ellos estaban
 
Ooh, yo and usted are the same, that's new :lol:

Actually, I just remembered the el/ella conjugation for estar right after I typed that! We sing this song in Spanish, "La mar estaba serena, serena estaba la mar" and change all of the As to Os, Is and so on to help with pronouncing the vowels. Personally, I prefer listening to Shakira, Kinky and Julieta Venegas to help with my pronunciation. ^_^

PS: Where are you from sleepingbeauty13 and is Spanish your 1st language?
 
Ha,ha! I know that song and I prefer Shakira also :lol:
Spanish is my second language, my mom is a Spanish teacher. I'm half French/half German, but I'm from the US and English is my first language (not so good in French and German :ninja:)
 
Hehe, that's cool! Hopefully your mom is much better than my Spanish teacher (I'm sure she is!). She's soooo swful and sooo white! :lol:

I'm actually 1/4 Spanish (my grandpa was Spanish, and spoke Spanish as his first language), but no one ever believes me because I have red hair and freckles! :lol: :flower:

PS, do you know the conjugations for regular ir, er, and ar verbs?
 
ir, er, ar

I'm using cantar (sing) as an example
Yo canto
Tu cantas
El/ella canta
Nosotros cantamos
Ustedes cantan
Ellos cantan

comer (eat)
Yo como
Tu comes
El/ella come
Nosotros comemos
Ustedes comen
Ellos comen

vivir (live)
Yo vivo
Tu vives
El/ella vive
Nosotros vivimos
Ustedes viven
Ellos viven
when the verb ending is ir the i changes to e with Tu, El/ella, Ustedes and Ellos.
 

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