La famille

Bon jour!

Aujourd'hui on va étudier les noms de famille.  J'espère que vous sohaitez votre nouveau leçon de vocabulaire
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Today we are going to study the family names.  I hope that you enjoy this new vocabulary lesson 

FRANÇAIS	ENGLISH
Père (m)	Father
Mère (f)	Mother
Frère (m)	Brother
Soeur (f)	Sister
Fils (m)	Sons
Fille (f)	Daughter
Grand-père (m)	Grandfather
Grand-mère (f)	Grandmother
Cousin (m)	Cousin (m)
Cousine (f)	Cousin (f)
Petit fils (m)	Grandson
Petite fille (f)	Granddaughter
Oncle (m)	Uncle
Tante (f)	Aunt
Neveu (m)	Nephew
Nièce (f)	Niece
Beau-père (m)	Father in law
Belle-mère (f)	Mother in law
Beau-fils (m)	Son in law
Belle-fille (f)	Daughter in law
Beau-frère (m)	Brother in law
Belle-soeur (f)	Sister in law

So have fun studying the family names.

Au revoir

Le verbe être

Bonjour


Let's keep on studying our French lessons.  Today we are going to practice one of the first verbs you learn when you are studying french: le verbe être which can be assimilate with the verb to be.


So first, let's conjugate it:

French	English
Je suis	I am
Tu es	You (sing) are
Il/ Elle est	He/She is
Nous Sommes	We are
Vous êtes	You (pl.) are
Ils/ Elles sont	They are

You can use the verb être with adjectives and to describe a quality of the subject as you do in English:


Je suis étudiant                          I am a student
Nous sommes forts                    We are strong


When we study the past you'll know that in French, the verb être is also used as an auxiliary form to indicate the past tense:


Je suis allé        I went

Les salutations

Bon jour


Today we are going to study how do you say Hi and Good bye in French.


Take a look at the following voabulary

Salutation (French)	Translation
Salut (informal)	Hi
Bonjour	Good morning/ Good afternoon
Bonne journée	Good day (farewell)
Bon soir	Good evening/ night (greeting)
Bonne nuit	Good night (farewell)
Bonne soirée	Good evening/ night (farewell)

As you can see, we use Bon jour both to say Good morning or good afternoon and Bon soir to greet someone in the middle of the night. 


You can also use salut to say hi at no matter what time of the day but you have to remember that this is only accepted on an informal speech.


Practice your greetings and enjoy your french.  See you soon.


Au revoir.