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Learn French with the grammar on the card.
A French word is not usable without its gender, its conjugation and its register. Every NuanceDeck card carries them, inside real sentences where the silent letters are greyed, the liaisons are tied and the tense is named under the verb.
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je pars · nous partons · ils partent
to leave, to go away (from a place)
Examples · 3
- Mes sœurs sont parties à la montagne samedi.My sisters left for the mountains on Saturday.
- Nous allons partir juste après le déjeuner.We are going to leave right after lunch.
- Dans mon ancien travail, je ne partais jamais avant huit heures.In my old job, I never left before eight o'clock.
What French demands
Four things a word list leaves out, and a learner pays for later. Each one is on the card.
The gender, on the article
A noun learned without its article is half learned. Every noun card leads with its article in the colour of its gender, so an elided article still tells it, and the sentences confirm it: an adjective that agrees, a plural, a partitive.
The tense, named under the verb
The French past is two tenses, and one sentence often holds both: what was going on, and what happened. Every conjugated verb that is not in the present carries the name of its tense, one brace from the auxiliary to the participle.
Tu or vous
French changes what you say with who you say it to, and it changes everything at once: the verb, the small words, the reply. Cards teach both, side by side.
What is written, and what is said
French spells letters it does not pronounce and links words it writes apart. Silent letters are greyed, and a liaison is tied with the sound you hear printed under it. The same word can change: a letter heard in the singular goes quiet in the plural.
The whole verb, laid out
Conjugation is not picked up from context alone. Each verb comes with its full table, the ending in bold and the unheard letters greyed, so you can see that six written forms are often three spoken ones.
parler · Présent
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | je parle | nous parlons |
| 2nd | tu parles | vous parlez |
| 3rd | il parle | ils parlent |
Start with what people look up
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Phrases
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