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French III Review: Test #2 (le 29 octobre)
Les objets directs
me, m’
te, t’
le, la, l’
nous
vous
les
Il m’aime.
He likes me.
Il t’aime.
He likes you.
Il l’aime.
He likes her/him/it.
Il nous aime.
He likes us.
Il vous aime.
He likes you. (formal or plural)
Il les aime.
He likes them.
Direct objects answer the question « what ? “ or “who?” He likes who? He likes
what?
Also, notice that when writing sentences using pronouns, you still conjugate the
verb to agree with the subject (je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils/ells)!
Practice re-writing these using a direct object pronoun (see bottom of this
document to check your answers).
Nous achetons une pizza.
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Elle écrit une lettre.
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Je aime le garcon.
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Je regarde la télé.
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Vous mangez un sandwich et un soda.
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Ils ferment la porte.
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Now try rewriting these same sentences in the negative. Remember, the ne goes directly after
the subject, and the pas goes directly after the verb that is conjugated (often times there is only
one verb in the sentence, so you know that is the conjugated verb).
i.e. Je ne le fais pas.
Ils ne les lisent pas.
Nous achetons une pizza.
Vous ne la connaissez pas.
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Elle écrit une lettre.
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Je aime le garcon.
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Je regarde la télé.
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Vous mangez un sandwich et un soda.
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Ils ferment la porte.
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Writing commands (l’impératif) using le, la, les, and moi
Remember the rules of writing verbs in the imperatif. The subject is going to either be “tu” or “vous”
(depending if you want to be formal, informal, or if you are talking to one person or more than one
person), even though you don’t actually see the words “tu” or “vous” in the sentences. So once you
decide what you want your audience to be (tu or vous), you must use that form of the verb. Remember
the exceptions: with all –er verbs, as well as “aller”, you drop the “s” if using the “tu” form (i.e. you are
giving a command to one person and it is informally).
Regarde!
Regardez!
Finis!
Finissez!
Attends!
Attendez!
Va!
Allez!
(notice that I did not drop the “s” from attendre, because it is an –re verb, not an –er verb!)
Once you remember how to write in the imperative, all you have to do is add “le/la/les/moi” if necessary.
(un photo)
Regarde-le!
Regardez-le !
Look at it (the photo)!
(une télé)
Regarde-la!
Regardez-la
Look at it (the tv) !
(des garcons)
Regarde-les!
Regardez-les
Look at them (the boys) !
(moi)
Regarde-moi !
Regardez-moi !
Look at me !
(un examen)
Finis-le !
Finissez-le !
(une conversation)
Finis-la !
Finissez-la !
(les devoirs)
Finis-les !
Finissez-les !
** The first column of these examples is speaking to 1 person informally, and the second
column is speaking to either 1 person formally or more than one person.
Passé compose
**Remember that to make the passé compose, you need two things: an auxillary verb (avoir or
etre), plus a past participle. For this test, we will be using verbs that used “avoir” for the
auxillary verb.
J’ai mangé.
I ate.
Past participle for all –er verbs is the stem + é
Nous avons fini.
We finished.
Past participle for all –ir verbs is the stem + i
Ils ont attendu.
They waited.
Past participle for all –re verbs is the stem + u
** Notice that the verb you conjugate is avoir…the past participle is the same for all subjects.
The only time you add anything to the past participle is when there is a direct object pronoun
(le, la, les, l’) involved.
(les pommes)
Je les ai mangées.
I ate them (the apples).
(les hamburgers)
Je les ai mangés.
I ate them (the hamburgers).
(la conversation)
Nous l’avons finie.
We finished it (the conversation).
(le train)
Il l’ont attendu.
We waited for it (the train)
When the pronoun represents something feminine, add an “e” to the past participle. When the
pronoun represents something plural, add an “s”. If the pronoun represents something plural
and feminine, add “es”. If the pronoun represent something masculine and singular, add
nothing.
Try writing these present tense sentences in the past using a direct object pronoun:
1. Je regarde la télé.
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2. Il donne un cadeau.
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3. Nous rendons les devoirs.
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4. Vous finissez la presentation.
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5. Tu fermes la fenêtre.
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**Important: The only time you add “e” or “es” to the verb (the past participle) is in the PAST
TENSE! Do not get confused and start adding letters when you are using pronouns in the
PRESENT TENSE. For example:
(les pommes) Je les mange.
(les pommes) Je les ai mangées.
You only have to worry about adding letters (we call this agreement) in the PAST TENSE !
Verbs connaître and reconnaître
Connaître means “to know”, as in “to be familiar with”
je connais
nous connaissons
tu connais
vous connaissez
Past participle : connu
il/elle connaît ils/elles connaissent
Reconnaître means « to recognize »
je reconnais
nous reconnaissons
tu reconnais
vous reconnaissez
il/elle reconnaît
ils/elles reconnaissent
Tu connais l’homme ?
Past participle : reconnu
Tu as connu Madame ?
Oui, je le connais !
Oui, je l’ai connue !
Non, je ne le connais pas !
Practice labeling the following parts of the sentence : Subject (S), Verb (V), direct object
pronoun (DOP), and if you are in the past tense, auxillary verb (AUX) and past participle (P.P.)
Nous le connaissons.
Tu l’as connu.
Ils les ont regardés.
Nous vous voir au centre commercial !
Vous l’avez rendu.
Je vous invite au café.
Je vous ai invité au café.
Il m’a attendue.
Elle les mange.
Il les a mangés.