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📖 Mastering French Verb Stems for the Imperfect, Future, and Conditional Tenses If you’re learning French, you’ve probably noticed that the imperfect, future, and conditional tenses all depend on specific verb stems — and that getting them right is half the battle to correct conjugation. In this post, I’ll break down how to form these stems and give you a handy cheatsheet for the most common irregular verbs. 🔹 Imperfect Tense (Imparfait) The imperfect tense describes ongoing or repeated actions in the past (like I was walking or I used to go)....

🌰 Marron = brown (like the color of a chestnut) ✅ Used for: Objects and most things in general une table marron des chaussures marron un sac marron ✅ It’s invariable — it doesn’t change in gender or number! un pantalon marron des jupes marron (not marronnes) 🧔 Brun = brown (more like brown hair / dark features) ✅ Mainly used for: Hair color People (especially referring to someone with dark hair or features) Elle a les cheveux bruns....

🧠 Base meaning of genre: Originally, genre means: noun: type, kind, category Quel genre de musique tu aimes ? What kind of music do you like? But in spoken French, especially among younger people or in informal settings, it has evolved a lot 👇 🔥 Casual Uses of genre in Spoken French 1. Filler word / Discourse marker — like “like” in English C’était, genre, trop bizarre. ➡️ It was, like, super weird....

Grammar Breakdown of des centaines de millions de gen 1️⃣ Structure Analysis “des” → Indefinite article (plural of de + les), meaning “some.” “centaines” → Noun, meaning “hundreds.” It is the plural of centaine (“a hundred”). “de” → Preposition meaning “of,” used after quantities. “millions” → Noun, meaning “millions.” “de” → Again, preposition meaning “of.” “gens” → Plural noun meaning “people.” 2️⃣ Explanation of Quantity Rules A) “centaines de millions” (Hundreds of millions) Centaine and million are nouns (not numbers in this case)....

Passons The French word “passons” comes from the verb “passer” and is the first-person plural (nous) form in the present tense or the imperative mood. Possible Meanings: Indicative Present (Nous passons) “We pass” / “We are passing” Example: Nous passons devant l’école tous les jours. (We pass by the school every day.) Imperative (Command: Passons !) “Let’s move on” / “Let’s skip” / “Let’s pass” Example: Passons au sujet suivant....