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What is the difference between "tu" and "vous" and when should you use them?

In French, the personal pronoun "you" is translated in two ways: "tu" and "vous". "Tu" is the second person singular, and "vous" is the second person plural....
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Answered by Nicole F. • French tutor
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How do you know whether a noun is masculine or feminine in French?

This is a common question from all French students with no straightforward answer. This question can only fully be answered through experience and memorisation of the French nouns with their gender. However,...
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Answered by Natasha G. • French tutor
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When do you use the imperfect tense?

The imperfect tense is a past tense that describes how things used to be, what used to happen and is used to give opinions about past events . It describes an ongoing action in the past or something that use...
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Answered by Roisin M. • French tutor
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How do you know if a noun is feminine and needs la' before it or if a noun is masculine and needs 'le'?

This is one of those questions that doesn't have a straightforward answer and it is only through experience of the language that one learns the gender of each noun. However, there are some noun endings that ...
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Answered by Natasha G. • French tutor
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When would you use the imperfect tense, and how do you construct it?

It is used when:-Talking about something that used to happen, i.e. was ongoing for a period of time-The weather in the past-Physical description of something in the past-Talking about something that was happ...
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Answered by Wendy L. • French tutor
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