Brun vs marron
🌰 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....
Genre
🧠 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....
100 Ma patrie, c'est la langue française
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)....
99 Quoi de neuf
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....
98 Tu as l'air complètement KO
Past Conditional vs. Pluperfect & How They Work Together Both the past conditional (conditionnel passé) and the pluperfect (plus-que-parfait) are used to talk about past events, but they serve different purposes. 1. Pluperfect (Plus-que-parfait) Usage: The pluperfect is used to describe an action that happened before another past event. It provides background information or a cause in the past. Formation: Imperfect of “avoir” or “être” + past participle ✅ Examples:...